>> - The control files has been transfered from AIX5.3 to a Linux Machine !! > >This is an Oracle issue and not a CentOS issue. > >Please note that, typically, Oracle binary files are not portable between >hardware and OS platforms. When I used to DBA Oracle (Oracle 8; that >long ago) we were told by Oracle that files were not portable (eg between >HPUX and Solaris, or Solaris and Linux). This definitely belongs to an Oracle mailing list. However, please look at possible issues between Big/Little Endian architectures. I've seen this when moving between different archs. MAL