Oracle on RHEL4 with ASM problem

[Jack Challen]

Lunt, Nick wrote:
> This box is using 10Gr1.
> We just removed /dev/sdp1 from ASM.
> I created /dev/raw/raw1 bound to /dev/sdp1.
> oracleasm createdisk for /dev/raw/raw1 failed saying /dev/raw/raw1 is not a block device.

Hmmmm... on RHEL you do this:
(Unbind your raw1 device first with "raw /dev/raw/raw1 0 0")

edit /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices to be something like
===
#....
/dev/raw/raw1 /dev/sdb1
===

then "service rawdevices start" (remember to chkconfig that service to 
"on"!)... and "chown oracle:oinstall /dev/raw/raw1"

and try that again


-- 
Jack Challen
Technical Consultant, OCSL.
http://www.ocsl.co.uk/