When you do a recover automatic, Oracle will ask you for files that it can't find. I know that under Oracle 7.3.4 you could type in the path and name of one of the log files. If that isn't he file it wants it will tell you then type in the path and file of a different log. Keep doing this untile you either fix the problem or run out of log files. As I said this might only be a 7.3.4 issue because it seemed that in 7.3.4 Oracle didn't neccesarily look in the redo logs when doing a recovery.