[Oracleasm-users] Oracle ASMLib and IBM SDD

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:29:59PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> 	Zero out the front of the disk (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vpathaa1
> bs=8192 count=1).  Then run:

	Before you run this, let me ask you: is this a new disk?  Or do
you have data on it via raw device access?  If you have data on it,
don't zero it out!

Joel

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