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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I replaced our Firewire cards and all 4 nodes are running OK. I installed CRS on all 4 nodes fine. I then installed Oracle RDBMS on all 4 nodes OK. Next, I used DBCA to create a database, it almost succussed. It hangs at the last step when try to startup the instance.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To debug it, I re-boot all 4 nodes, and manually run SQL*Plus, it hangs as well. (I double checked the datafiles are created fine on the shared disk)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In the /var/log/message, it has message like:</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">May 17 11:46:03 melclul11 kernel: ocfs: Removing melclul12 (node 0) from clustered device (8,46)</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I thought it might an Oracle limitation. So I disable the crs on two nodes, and YES, I can startup my database fine.</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Now, all 4 nodes are running, only two has crs enabled, and a database is running on these two nodes. It is quite clear to me that this is an Oracle limitation, Oracle only allow 2 nodes on Firewire.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My question is, is this limitation configurable? and How?</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks in advance.</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Han</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></FONT><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">From: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Han Xie </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Sent: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Wednesday, 18 May 2005 9:22 AM</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">To: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">'firewire-devel@oss.oracle.com'; 'firewire-users@oss.oracle.com'</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Subject: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">4 node firewire cluster</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We try to setup a 4 node firewire cluster. The firewire hub seems only support 2 nodes at a time. I wonder if anyone has setup a firewire cluster with more than 2 nodes. If so, may I ask what hub hardware is used please?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks in advance and regards.</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-au"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Han</FONT></SPAN>
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