[Oracleasm-users] Oracle ASMLib and IBM SDD

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 05:17:38PM -0500, heath seals wrote:
> Disk /dev/vpathaa: 16.0 GB, 16000024576 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1945 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>        Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/vpathaa1             1      1945  15623181   83  Linux

	Zero out the front of the disk (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vpathaa1
bs=8192 count=1).  Then run:

asmtool -l /dev/oracleasm -C -n VOLNAME -s /dev/vpathaa1

and see what the error is.

Joel

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