My oracle 8i was running on win2k adv server on "no archive mode", I
switched it to archive mode (Automatic archival disabled) last night.
Today I got the following error from windows event log:



Event Type: Error

Event Source: Oracle.Banker

Event Category: None

Event ID: 20

Date: 3/3/2005

Time: 11:30:38 AM

User: N/A

Computer: ***

Description:

Archive process error: ORACLE Instance biotics - Can not allocate log,
archival required



Please give me your hand!

Martin


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