WILL>>Check to see if the disk that you are archiving to filled up.
Move the log files somewhere else, the
svrmgrl
connect internal
archive log start;



Ma Martin wrote:
> 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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