Sorry-resending due to overquoting ... Hi all, thanks for all the information-so far so good. Most of the information available on the net seems to focus on Solaris SPARC, but the disk names are slightly different on Solaris Intel. What I'm trying to do is to create a partition (not slice) for my ASM disk, skipping the first 3 or so cyclinders to preserve the disk meta information. And EMC docs don't seem to be out there for grabs explaining the name of the device, what the _whole_ disk is etc. Grmph. > This is expected behaviour so you don't overwrite the disk vtoc ... note > 367715.1 > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l