Re: Oracle 9.2 RAC installation error on raw devices

From: Hemant K Chitale <hkchital_nospam_at_singnet_nospam.com.sg>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:32:10 +0800
Message-ID: <3D56756A.507EB828@singnet_nospam.com.sg>

If I remember correctly, somewhere in the README or Known Bugs list of 9i2 there's a note that the DBCA cannot handle raw devices as file names -- you are advised to create soft-links to the raw devices and pass the soft-link names when using DBCA.

Hemant

Igor Smaglyuk 1293309929 wrote:
>
> During Oracle 9.2 RAC installation on Linux Red Hat 7.3 on raw devices
> Database Configuration Assistant
> returned the error message:
>
> "Raw device validation check for Data File
> "/dev/raw/clustdb_raw_cwmlite_100m" failed, No such file or directory".
>
> Really this file exists, this is a link to a raw device.
>
> How does Oracle validate the raw file?
> What does this error mean?
>
> Igor.
Received on Sun Aug 11 2002 - 09:32:10 CDT