Hi, Environment: Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 Standrad Edition Solaris 10 (sparc 64bit) I am using Oracle Clusterware only. I have configure ASM instance on two nodes.I can start both ASM instances without any error.but when I give crs_stat -t Name Type Target State Host ------------------------------------------------------------ ora....SM2.asm application ONLINE UNKNOWN bull...rac2 ora....C2.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE bull...rac2 ora....ac2.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE bull...rac2 ora....ac2.ons application ONLINE ONLINE bull...rac2 ora....ac2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE bull...rac2 ora....SM1.asm application ONLINE UNKNOWN catf...rac1 ora....C1.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE catf...rac1 ora....ac1.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE catf...rac1 ora....ac1.ons application ONLINE ONLINE catf...rac1 ora....ac1.vip application ONLINE ONLINE catf...rac1 so I tried to start ASM using srvctl srvctl start asm -n bullhead-rac2 It's giving me below error: PRKS-1009 : Failed to start ASM instance "+ASM2" on node "bullhead-rac2", [PRKS-1009 : Failed to start ASM instance "+ASM2" on node "bullhead-rac2", [CRS-1028: Dependency analysis failed because of: CRS-0223: Resource 'ora.bullhead-rac2.ASM2.asm' has placement error.]] [PRKS-1009 : Failed to start ASM instance "+ASM2" on node "bullhead-rac2", [CRS-1028: Dependency analysis failed because of: CRS-0223: Resource 'ora.bullhead-rac2.ASM2.asm' has placement error.]] --------------------------------- Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids.