Jorge,
has the oracle user the right permission on the devices?

Are the device "clean"?

Go with a dd (with the oracle user) to make sure of both:

dd if=/dev/null of=your_device_here bs=4096k count=10

The easiest way to be able to access the devices is to add the oracle
user at the "disk" group.

Regards
Fabrizio

PS: ASM_DISKSTRING can be set before creating the ASM or even after.
You can always add the devices after the ASM instance is running.

LOPEZ DIAZ, JORGE wrote:
> Hi Fabrizio,
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> When runInstaller ask for select candidate disks, there is a buttom to change where to look at. If I specify '/dev/sd*' to try to use block devices the list is empty. If I specify '/dev/*' the list has two lines: /dev/random and /dev/null.
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> Perhaps I must specify ASM_DISKSTRING before to lunch runInstaller.
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> Jorge L?pez D?az
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> ________________________________
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> De: Fabrizio Magni [mailto:fabrizio.magni@(protected)]
> Enviado el: jueves, 28 de septiembre de 2006 14:21
> Para: LOPEZ DIAZ, JORGE
> CC: suse-oracle@(protected)
> Asunto: Re: [suse-oracle] ASM and block devices
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> Ho Jorge,
> where are you looking at when trying to discover the device?
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> Pay attention the the SM config parameter: ASM_DISKSTRING.
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> Regards
> Fabrizio
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> On 9/28/06, LOPEZ DIAZ, JORGE <jorge.lopez@(protected):
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> Hello again.
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>  Now I'm trying to configure ASM in my VMware 2 nodes 10g RAC. Is it possible to use block devices for ASM without installing asmlib? I can't get runInstaller sees any block device.
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> SLES 10 x86_64
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> RAC and Database 10.2.0.1
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> Vmware Server 1.0.1
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> Thank you
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> Jorge L?pez D?az
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