RE: Addition of Redo logfile onto RAW Device Failing

Qs Should the "b" (block device) file - /dev/vg02/rawdb1 OR the "c" (character device) file - /dev/vg02/rrawdb1 be used? Have used BOTH names without success.

NOTE - This is a NON-ASM, NON-RAC Oracle Setup with Database on Mounted Filesystem.

An Old Oracle ver 8 metalink Doc 1051188.6 indicates that Oracle uses only "c" - character device files as raw devices.

Oracle 10.2.0.3.0
HP-UX B.11.23

Cheers

P.S. Errors:-

SQL> alter database add logfile group 3 ('/dev/vg02/rrawdb1') size 500M ; alter database add logfile group 3 ('/dev/vg02/rrawdb1') size 500M *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00301: error in adding log file '/dev/vg02/rrawdb1' - file cannot be created
ORA-15059: invalid device type for ASM disk Additional information: 255

$ ls -al /dev/vg02/*raw*

brw-r-----   1 ora10r2    dba         64 0x020002 Feb  6 11:37 /dev/vg02/rawdb1
brw-r-----   1 ora10r2    dba         64 0x020003 Feb  6 11:37 /dev/vg02/rawdb2
crw-r-----   1 ora10r2    dba         64 0x020002 Feb  6 11:37 /dev/vg02/rrawdb1
crw-r-----   1 ora10r2    dba         64 0x020003 Feb  6 11:37 /dev/vg02/rrawdb2

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg02/rrawdb1 bs=8192 count=40000
40000+0 records in
40000+0 records out
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg02/rrawdb2 bs=8192 count=40000
40000+0 records in
40000+0 records out

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