Cristian Veronesi wrote:
>
> Manuela Mueller wrote:
>
> > I'm aware of dbms_repair package, but the frequence and the occurence of
> > data block corruption shortly after the installation makes me uneasy. I
> > have never encountered data block corruption with that frequency on
> > various 8i installations I performed.
>
> Manuela,
>
> I don't know if this could help, but I just faced a similar problem with
> SuSE SLES7 and Oracle 9.0.1.3: dbv showed a lot of corrupted blocks
> everywhere! But then I discovered there was a broken DIMM and after
> replacing it and rerun fsck dbv showed only one block corrupted in the
> whole database!
> So I suggest to carefully testing your hardware, expecially memory and
> disk, possibily using your hardware vendor utilities.
>
> Also, as "daekw_at_yahoo.com" said, please notice that SuSE 8.0 is not
> certified for Oracle, and it will never be. For a production environment
> you have to buy SLES7, otherwise you will have problem with the Oracle
> support.
>
> Kind regards, Cristian
Thanks for your input. I got the same idea about broken hardware. Over
the weekend I am running a memory test, HDD test reveals no errors.
Have a nice weekend
Manuela Muller
Received on Sat Jun 15 2002 - 06:46:59 CDT
