raw device for voting disk RHEL5

Posting to the oracle group, b/c all the googling points to only Oracle folks using raw devices :)

This is pretty much the problem, can't write to raw device.

BTW, this is RHEL5, and there is no more 'chkconfig restart rawservice" or whatever it used to be. Need raw for Std Edition RAC 10gr2.

[root_at_lsbcmdbp01 ~]# /bin/raw /dev/raw/raw10 /dev/sdi1
/dev/raw/raw10: bound to major 8, minor 129
[root_at_lsbcmdbp01 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/raw/raw10 bs=512 count=20
dd: opening `/dev/raw/raw10': Device or resource busy
[root_at_lsbcmdbp01 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdi1 bs=512 count=20
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
10240 bytes (10 kB) copied, 0.00076 seconds, 13.5 MB/s

permissions (played with)
[root_at_lsbcmdbp01 ~]# ls -ltrh /dev/raw/raw10
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 162, 10 Nov 14 03:31 /dev/raw/raw10

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