The permissions on the link appear to be correct. How about the device that is pointed to? -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DIANNA GIBBS Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:01 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: chris.langston@xxxxxx Subject: ASM - creating diskgroup error... I have a friend trying to create an ASM diskgroup and getting errors - any idea how he needs to proceed? Thanks in advance. Here are the details. Trying to create a NEW diskgroup in ASM. OS: SunOS 5.8 Generic_117350-49 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire ORACLE: SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.2.0 Raw Device: lrwxrwxrwx 1 oracle dba 55 Jul 19 12:18 c4t2d5s7 -> ../../devices/ssm@0,0/pci@1a,700000/lpfc@2/sd@2,5:h,raw <snip> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l