Oracle 8i IO errors

A problem has reared its head on one of our servers and I need some help.

While loading records at the point when the process tried to create the index required before processing starts the following error message was received:

SQL EXCEPTION: ORA-00603: ORACLE server session terminated by fatal error

ORA-01114: IO error writing block to file 4 (block # 524232)
ORA-27069: skgfdisp: attempt to do I/O beyond the range of the file
OSD-04026: Invalid parameter passed. (OS 524232)
ORA-01115: IO error reading block from file 4 (block # 366740)
ORA-27069: skgfdisp: attempt to do I/O beyond the range of the file
OSD-04026: Invalid parameter passed. (OS 366740)
ORA-01115: IO error reading block from file 4 (block # 366740)
ORA-27069: skgfdisp: attempt to do I/O beyond the range of the file
OSD-04026: Invalid parameter passed. (OS 366740)

I tried to create the index manually but got the same error minus the first line.

The database is running on an NT4 server, with all disks mounted locally, i.e. no remote mounts, optical drives etc. Since an index was being created I think its probably a temporary area involved, but I can't be certain of this.

Any help would be much appreciated, since my knowledge of Oracle could be fitted in a small matchbox without taking the matches out first. Ingres, I'm your girl, but Oracle I'm still at the floundering stage!

Chloe Crowder
The British Library Received on Fri May 03 2002 - 03:59:59 CDT