Hi I am facing issue with discovery of disks on the AIX server. This is new environment which is 4 -node RAC and when I am trying to configure ASM disk group , I am not able to see the ASM disks. Here is what is available so far Db Version : 10.2.0.4 Platform : AIX 1. Permission on ASM disk are Oracle:oinstall 2. Also Mode setting is 660 3. More information on Major/Minor along with Alias. I tried to use /dev/*, /dev/ora_asm* but no one is able to discover any disk. racdb1 dev$ls -ltr |grep "36, 39" crw-rw---- 1 root system 37, 39 Mar 31 13:32 rhdiskpower39 brw-rw---- 1 root system 37, 39 Mar 31 13:32 hdiskpower39 crw-rw---- 1 oracle oinstall 37, 39 Apr 30 15:07 ora_asm_disk34 4. Reserve_lock information racdb1:/dev$lsattr -El hdiskpower39 cgname Consistency Group Name True clr_q yes Clear Queue (RS/6000) True location Location True lun_id 0x1b9000000000000 LUN ID False lun_reset_spt yes FC Forced Open LUN True max_coalesce 0x20000 Maximum coalesce size True max_transfer 0x40000 Maximum transfer size True pvid none Physical volume identifier False pvid_takeover yes Takeover PVIDs from hdisks True q_err no Use QERR bit True q_type simple Queue TYPE False queue_depth 16 Queue DEPTH True reassign_to 120 REASSIGN time out value True reserve_lock no Reserve device on open True rw_timeout 40 READ/WRITE time out True scsi_id 0x632913 SCSI ID False start_timeout 180 START unit time out True ww_name 0x50060482d530b488 World Wide Name False 5. Tried to Truss the rbal process and ran the "Select * from v$asm_disk" and here is the ouutput 540734: = 1 540734: thread_wait(3000) = 0 540734: statx(".", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFB330, 176, 0) = 0 540734: open(".", O_RDONLY) = 14 540734: getdirent64(14, 0x0000000110647CF0, 4096) = 264 540734: klseek(14, 0, 0, 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFB230) = 0 540734: kfcntl(14, F_GETFD, 0x000000011025EF78) = 0 540734: kfcntl(14, F_SETFD, 0x0000000000000001) = 0 540734: close(14) = 0 540734: statx("/", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFB550, 176, 020) = 0 540734: statx("./", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFB550, 176, 020) = 0 540734: statx("./../", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFB330, 176, 0) = 0 540734: open("./../", O_RDONLY) = 14 540734: getdirent64(14, 0x0000000110647CF0, 4096) = 2360 540734: klseek(14, 0, 0, 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFB230) = 0 540734: kfcntl(14, F_GETFD, 0x000000011025EF78) = 0 540734: kfcntl(14, F_SETFD, 0x0000000000000001) = 0 540734: fstatx(14, 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFB550, 176, 020) = 0 540734: getdirent64(14, 0x0000000110647CF0, 4096) = 2360 540734: close(14) = 0 540734: statx("./../../", 0x0FFFFFFFFFFFB330, 176, 0) Err#13 EACCES 540734: thread_post(1458215) = 0 540734: thread_post(1458215) = 0 540734: thread_post(1458215) = 0 540734: thread_wait(2270) (sleeping...) 540734: thread_wait(2270) = 1 540734: times(0x0FFFFFFFFFFFD760) = 32513143 540734: times(0x0FFFFFFFFFFFD6B0) = 32513143 540734: open("/proc/651314/psinfo", O_RDONLY) = 14 540734: kread(14, "\0 \0010204\001\0\0\001".., 448) = 448 540734: close(14) = 0 Any more checking that can help TIA Sanjay