CRS-1604:CSSD voting file is offline

Hi all, when the installation of RAC,I set the vote disk like that:
vote disk :/dev/rdsk/c5t50060E800043C5E1d2s7
vote disk1:/dev/rdsk/c5t50060E800043C5E1d3s6
vote disk2:/dev/rdsk/c5t50060E800043C5E1d3s7
when the installation complete, I found some errors in alert_log file:
[cssd(864)]CRS-1604:CSSD voting file is offline: /dev/rdsk/c5t50060E800043C5E1d3s6. Details in /oracle/product/10.2.0/crs/log
/nrac1/cssd/ocssd.log.
and in the ocssd.log like this:
[ CSSD]2006-11-13 10:32:41.560 [7] >TRACE: clssnmDiskStateChange: state from 3 to 3 disk (1//dev/rdsk/c5t50060E800043C5E
1d3s6)
what is this ? and how to fix it?

You may have to delete and add a new voting device (high level steps):
1) Shutdown CRS
2) Use:crsctl delete css votedisk <vote_disk_path> -force
3) Use:crsctl add css votedisk <vote_disk+path> -force
4) Check the voting disks status using: crsctl query css votedisk
HTH
Thanks
-Chandra

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