> Out of curiosity, may I ask why you explicitly set asm_diskstring when you > are using asmlib? It should have been sufficient to leave it to the empty > string, or alternatively set to 'ORCL:*'. I had this problem yesterday. Everything was working using ORCL:*. Then after rebooting ASM couldn't open any of the devices. I changed the diskstring to /dev/oracleasm/disks/* and ASM could open them fine. This was the first reboot after the Grid 11.2 install. Steve Harville http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveharville -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l