That's odd. These are the steps specific to MD Linus multipathing. You are using Hitachi multipathing drivers as I understand (I never had a chance to work with it). Patch 4679769 seems to be universal to all multipathing (it's discovered with power path). However, I have never applied it and always worked fine. Maybe it solves problem with block devices and not multipathing? For that, you should find Note 401132.1 useful. On 8/30/07, rama.ari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <rama.ari@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alex, > > Thanks for your prompt reply. Oracle suggested applying patch 4679769 as > per Note # 343092.1 -- Alex Gorbachev, Oracle DBA Brewer, The Pythian Group http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alex http://www.oracloid.com BAAG party - www.BattleAgainstAnyGuess.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l