Raw disk Error

[Virumandi]

Hi .,

I am installing oracle on my server and I am getting the Following error message.

The following error message :

2006-10-31 19:45:02.102: [ OCROSD][1]utstoragetype: /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s6 is on
FS type UFS. Not supported.
2006-10-31 19:45:02.102: [ OCROSD][1]utopen:6'': OCR location
/dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s6 configured is not valid storage type. Return code [37].
2006-10-31 19:45:02.102: [ OCRRAW][1]proprinit: Could not open raw device
2006-10-31 19:45:02.102: [ default][1]a_init:7!: Backend init unsuccessful :
[37]
2006-10-31 19:45:02.102: [ OCRDUMP][1]Failed to initailized OCR context. Error
[PROC-37: Oracle Clus
ter Registry does not support the storage type configured] [




But my disk is a raw disk I didn't created any FS on the server...

Here is the Op of the format command...


partition> p
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 14087 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
1 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2 backup wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned wm 1 - 4534 22.00GB (4534/0/0) 46137984
4 unassigned wm 4535 - 9068 22.00GB (4534/0/0) 46137984
5 unassigned wm 9069 - 13602 22.00GB (4534/0/0) 46137984
6 unassigned wm 13603 - 13809 1.00GB (207/0/0) 2106432
7 unassigned wm 13810 - 14016 1.00GB (207/0/0) 2106432

partition>


Can anybody guide me how to came out of this issue..


Regards
Suseendran .A

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
as you look to be not on HPUX, my guess would be ..
Please see:
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-users/2005-July/000140.html

[Ralph Grothe]

The trailing s6 of your raw device looks like a BSD or Solaris slice?

[Ralph Grothe]

Oh yes, should have read more carefully.
There seems to be a UFS filesystem (Solaris?) on slice 6, but seems that the Oracle installer won't accept a raw device with a filesystem on it (I would think as kind of a preventative measure).
Try relabelling the disk.