Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi List I have oracle 9i (9.2.0.4 ) instance on AIX box (Ver 5.2). While taking the export i got following error in the log I am attaching log for reference. Database is up and running. No error has reported in alert.log file in even after log switches. Kindly help how should i go about resolving this EXP-00008: ORACLE error 1115 encountered ORA-01115: IO error reading block from file 7 (block # 197691) ORA-27063: skgfospo: number of bytes read/written is incorrect IBM AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 5: I/O error Additional information: -1 Additional information: 131072 ORA-01115: IO error reading block from file 7 (block # 197691) ORA-27063: skgfospo: number of bytes read/written is incorrect IBM AIX RISC System/6000 Error: 5: I/O error Additional information: -1 Additional information: 131072 Regards Pawan Dalmia Oracle DBA-Business Intelligence Desk-566 Cell 9819718753 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l