First of all delete all disks from diskgroup /usr/sbin/oracleasm deletedisk DISK1 then clear asm disk headers dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/mpath0p1 bs=8192 count=12800 reconfigure asm disks /usr/sbin/oracleasm configure -i and scandisk again /usr/sbin/oracleasm scandisks recreate asm disks /usr/sbin/oracleasm createdisk DISK1 /dev/mapper/mpath0p1 last thing , you have to reconfigure asm disks on other node /usr/sbin/oracleasm configure -i thats it..