Disks that were discovered but that have not yet been assigned to a disk group have

a header status of either CANDIDATE or PROVISIONED.

CANDIDATE
Disk is not part of a disk group and may be added to a disk group with the ALTER
DISKGROUP statement
PROVISIONED
Disk is not part of a disk group and may be added to a disk group with the ALTER
DISKGROUP statement. The PROVISIONED header status is different from the CANDIDATE
header status in that PROVISIONED implies that an additional platform-specific
action has been taken by an administrator to make the disk available for Automatic
Storage Management.
For example, on Windows, the administrator used asmtool or asmtoolg to stamp the
disk with a header, or on Linux, the administrator used ASMLib to prepare the disk
for ASM.

Below are the HEADER_STATUS in the v$ASM_DISK. I have taken below status from
11gR2.
� UNKNOWN - Automatic Storage Management disk header has not been read
� CANDIDATE - Disk is not part of a disk group and may be added to a disk
group with the ALTER DISKGROUP statement
� INCOMPATIBLE - Version number in the disk header is not compatible with
the Automatic Storage Management software version.
� PROVISIONED - Disk is not part of a disk group and may be added to a disk
group with the ALTER DISKGROUP statement. The PROVISIONED header status is
different from the CANDIDATE header status in that PROVISIONED implies that an
additional platform-specific action has been taken by an administrator to make the
disk available for Automatic Storage Management.
� MEMBER - Disk is a member of an existing disk group. No attempt should be
made to add the disk to a different disk group. The ALTER DISKGROUP statement will
reject such an addition unless overridden with the FORCE option
� FORMER - Disk was once part of a disk group but has been dropped cleanly
from the group. It may be added to a new disk group with the ALTER DISKGROUP
statement.
� CONFLICT - Automatic Storage Management disk was not mounted due to a
conflict
� FOREIGN - Disk contains data created by an Oracle product other than ASM.
This includes datafiles, logfiles, and OCR disks.

When adding a disk, the FORCE option must be used if Oracle ASM
recognizes that the disk was managed by Oracle. Such a disk appears
in the V$ASM_DISK view with a status of FOREIGN.