oh and if it is, is the FLASH disk group available within ASM? cheers On 9/13/07, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It looks like your datafile copies are located within an ASM recovery > area (based on name). If this is correct then is the ASM instance > available? -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l