Greetings, I am revisiting a question which I know has been posed before but I am stuck and believe I have done everything according to specification. I am trying to install a two-node RAC cluster, 10.2.0.1, Standard Edition on RHEL3 Linux x86. I have configured the disks using oracleasm as follows... :/local/d02/oracle->cat /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices # This file and interface are deprecated. # Applications needing raw device access should open regular # block devices with O_DIRECT. # raw device bindings # format: <rawdev> <major> <minor> # <rawdev> <blockdev> # example: /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/sda1 # /dev/raw/raw2 8 5 /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/emcpowera1 /dev/raw/raw2 /dev/emcpowera2 /dev/raw/raw3 /dev/emcpowera3 :/local/d02/oracle->raw -qa [root@banacek ~]# raw -qa /dev/raw/raw1: bound to major 120, minor 1 /dev/raw/raw2: bound to major 120, minor 2 /dev/raw/raw3: bound to major 120, minor 3 [root@banacek init.d]# ./oracleasm listdisks GROUP1 [root@banacek init.d]# ./oracleasm querydisk GROUP1 Disk "GROUP1" is a valid ASM disk on device [120, 3] And I have these entries in the /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm... # ORACLEASM_SCANORDER: Matching patterns to order disk scanning ORACLEASM_SCANORDER=emcpower # ORACLEASM_SCANEXCLUDE: Matching patterns to exclude disks from scan ORACLEASM_SCANEXCLUDE="sdc sdd sde sdf" Which I think is correct. When I ran the DBCA to configure ASM I chose external redundancy and the screen which shows the candidate disks shows both ORCL:GROUP1 /dev/raw/raw3 I chose ORCL:GROUP1. On went the DBCA and when it gets to the step of configuring ASM it throws an ORA-15072, which, as others have puzzled over makes no sense to me when external redundancy has been chosen. The instance is up and I can query v$asm_disk but it shows that the header_status is unknown for the chosen disk. It also lists /dev/raw/raw3 with a header status of provisioned. /dev/raw/raw2 is the voting disk. GROUP_NUMBER DISK_NUMBER COMPOUND_INDEX INCARNATION MOUNT_S HEADER_STATU MODE_ST ------------ ----------- -------------- ----------- ------- ------------ ------- STATE REDUNDA -------- ------- LIBRARY TOTAL_MB ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- FREE_MB NAME FAILGROUP ---------- ------------------------------ ------------------------------ LABEL ------------------------------- PATH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- UDID ---------------------------------------------------------------- PRODUCT CREATE_DA MOUNT_DAT REPAIR_TIMER READS -------------------------------- --------- --------- ------------ ---------- WRITES READ_ERRS WRITE_ERRS READ_TIME WRITE_TIME BYTES_READ BYTES_WRITTEN ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------------- 0 0 0 0 CLOSED FOREIGN ONLINE NORMAL UNKNOWN System 978 0 /dev/raw/raw2 0 0 2 2 0 CLOSED UNKNOWN ONLINE NORMAL UNKNOWN ASM Library - Generic Linux, version 2.0.2 (KABI_V2) 59484 0 GROUP1 ORCL:GROUP1 0 0 1 1 0 CLOSED PROVISIONED ONLINE NORMAL UNKNOWN System 59484 0 /dev/raw/raw3 I am thoroughly puzzled and if anyone has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l