Issue with ASM

Hi All,
I am doing configuration of RAC on Windows 2003 Ent servers.Its a 2 node cluster with ISCSI storage.
Clusterware installtion completed without any issues and ASM,CRS,CSS,EVM etc services are running in both nodes.
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>crsctl check crs
CSS appears healthy
CRS appears healthy
EVM appears healthy
Oracle installtion completed with storage using ASM (no database created) and rebooted both nodes.
When i try to create new database using dbca got some errors and at last found that ASM is not mounted
SQL> startup mount;
ASM instance started
Total System Global Area 92274688 bytes
Fixed Size 1289076 bytes
Variable Size 65819788 bytes
ASM Cache 25165824 bytes
ORA-15032: not all alterations performed
ORA-15040: diskgroup is incomplete
ORA-15042: ASM disk "3" is missing
ORA-15042: ASM disk "1" is missing
SQL>
verified that iscsi volumes are accesible through windows disk manager and iscsi initiator client.
Someone faced this kind of issue?Please help me.
Thanks,

Please ignore my previous post..
I managed to resolve the issue. There was something wrong with iscsi initiator and is resolved after reconnecting volumes on node1..
Thanks.

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