Am trying to get my head round on how to configure the disk storage so that i can use this for my ASM RAC database. I've got in total 50GB on a HDS SAN (RAID5) to play with. My question is how do i configure this so that i can use the storage for my ASM disk group(s). Do i ask the sysadmins to create me a 50GB raw partition? TIA --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail