DB Corruption on RHES 3.0, OCFS, Firewire

I recently built a RAC cluster using OCFS and a firewire device.
due to a bug in dbca. i had to create the db as a standalone instance, then alter it to be clustered.
All is fine for 24 hours or so. then both instances bomb out with corruption errors in the control files and then redo logs.
I've rebuilt the db's twice, with the same problems. here is the message i get in the alert log after 24 hours or so :
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/admin/racdb/bdump/racdb1_ckpt_17555.trc:
ORA-00201: controlfile version incompatible with ORACLE version
ORA-00202: controlfile: '/u02/oradata/racdb/control01.ctl'
Fri Mar 26 22:43:27 2004
The instance dies. When i re-start it :
ORA-00368: checksum error in redo log block
ORA-00353: log corruption near block 100625 change 85664 time 03/26/2004
22:38:46
ORA-00312: online log 3 thread 1: '/u02/oradata/racdb/redo03.log'
Anyone, any ideas ?

Thanks for asking Pavna. I was able to do it with the following steps :
FYI, See the following link for getting the DB running properly:
http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml#RunningOracleInstallationOnRHELAS3
In brief:
1)Apply patches & set paths, libraries & compilers per the aforementioned tech note.
2) 9.0 install w/ no DB after patching Red Hat per
3) 9.2.0.4. upgrade, still no DB
4) Patches 3119415 & 3238244 w/ OPatch
5) dbca w/ a custom defined db per chap. 10 of the 10gAS install guide -- create SQL scripts (dbca whines about invalid create operator statements otherwise..)
6) run the scripts to create the db
7) run rdbms/admin/catldap to create the LDAP schema& packages (do NOT run oidca)
8) run repca to create an empty repository
9) run infrastructure install -- identity mgt. install
Note: I was able to succeed with this process, but in retrospect, it looks like I was using gcc296 instead of 323...
As we are trying to prep for an automated install compliant with Oracle's embedded license reqts, we have to get this process down to a complete lights out install. I will release the process/docs/scripts to OTN when we are done.

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