Oh, btw, did you get an error in the ASM Alert log saying something like "parameter file not found, using default parameters"? hth Alan.- On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > In 11.2 the ASM PFILE should be in the OCR/VD diskgroup, This is what I > don't like about 11.2 RAC, you have a circular dependency on ASM which is > troublesome. Have you checked the CRS/CSS/OHAS logs? > > We do have a init+ASM1.ora file which is in some kind of binary format. > The original file we had pointed to the SPFILE within ASM. > spfile='+<Cluster_Name>_OCR/<SCAN>/asmparameterfile/registry.253.777486375' > > do you have a init+ASM#.ora in your CRS home? > > hth > Alan.- > > > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:22 PM, De DBA <dedba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It's the default (null) string. The instance SP file is on the diskgroup >> that it can't mount.. :( I guess that there's a configuration file >> somewhere not on ASM that causes it to mount the correct disk groups, since >> the missing diskgroup is mentioned in the alert log errors, even though the >> disks can't be found? >> >> >> On 04/08/12 09:45, Guillermo Alan Bort wrote: >> >>> did you check your disk string? >>> hth >>> Alan.- >>> >>> >>> -- >>> //www.freelists.org/**webpage/oracle-l<//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l