RAW device validation check

While configuing database using DBCA it shows
"Raw device validation check for Control file "/var/opt/oracle/oradata/orcl/control01.ctl"
failed, stat for /var/opt/oracle/oradata/orcl/control01.ctl failed.

Do you really want to create a database on raw devives or did you accidently select the 'raw device' button? "/var/opt/oracle/oradata/orcl/control01.ctl" doesn't look like a raw device, it could be at most a link. Generally raw devices can be checked with 'dd if=<shared config file> of=/dev/null bs=<db_block_size>' .
Werner

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Raw Device Validation Check for Name /u03/oradata/spfile/spfile{SID}.ora failed. The specified file /u01/oradata/spfile/spfile{SID}.ora doesnot exit.Please a existing file.
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Any help highly thankful
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this is how i have mounted the NAS...
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Once you find the raw devices, see your thread from yesterday on the subject, you can /sbin/fdisk -l <device name> to find information about the size.

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What does this error mean?
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If not - there is your error.
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Any idea about this error........
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There are a couple of errors that doesn't make the clusterware look fine.
There was no previous version of OCR. error:PROC-33: Oracle Cluster Registry is not configured
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This could mean either your cluster registry file is corrupt or you don't have access to the raw devices. Check the access to the shared storage raw device is valid. If this is not true, then make sure you have all your backup files ready.
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#!/bin/sh
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