I meant: now I remember that once, when I was setting up a test RAC on Solaris, I wasn't able to make the partitions visible for asm disk creation [...] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Dimitre > On 14/02/2012 00:08, Radoulov, Dimitre wrote: >> On 14/02/2012 00:00, Riyaj Shamsudeen wrote: >>> I don't recollect exact details, but disk VTOC (Volume Table of >>> Contents) information is kept in the initial part of the disk, in >>> Solaris. You have to skip 1MB, so that VTOC is not overwritten. This >>> applies only to Solaris, AFAIK. >> >> Hi Riyaj, >> thanks for pointing this out. >> >> Yes, now I remember that I wasn't able to make the partitions visible >> for asm disk creation until I partitioned the disks using a >> non-default offset. >> This requirement is documented in the Install guide for Solaris: [...] -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l