Installing Oracle Server on a PC Guardian encrypted disk

From: John Pickup <john_pickup_at_lineone.net>
Date: 18 Feb 2002 01:22:23 -0800
Message-ID: <c92bdb91.0202180122.6e4d4aa4@posting.google.com>

I have been trying to install Oracle 8.1.7 on a company notebook running NT4 (SP6) but fail when trying to create the database with an ORA-01503 CREATE CONTROLFILE failed error.

The only 'strange' thing about this notebook is that it has PC Guardian installed and this performs disk encryption, loading before the OS.

I am assuming that this encryption is the problem and thinking that perhaps Oracle is attempting to do direct disk access once the files have been created via the OS.

Does anyone know if this is case, i.e. if there is an issue with Oracle Server and encrypted disks?

Company security policy is such that I am not allowed to disable this encryption software although I am currently fighting the company security department. I would like to know if my suspicions are correct before I take the issue any higher... Received on Mon Feb 18 2002 - 03:22:23 CST