Command '('gpart', 'create', '-s', 'gpt', '/dev/da0')' returned non-zero exit status 1.

[melloa]

So, after changing sectors and formating this NetApp SAS disk, as below, got the error in subject.

Code:

root@freenas[~]# diskinfo -v da0
da0
        512             # sectorsize
        900185481216    # mediasize in bytes (838G)
        1758174768      # mediasize in sectors
        0               # stripesize
        0               # stripeoffset
        109441          # Cylinders according to firmware.
        255             # Heads according to firmware.
        63              # Sectors according to firmware.
        SE_HGST DKR5D-J900SS    # Disk descr.
        KVJZYEKF                # Disk ident.
        No              # TRIM/UNMAP support
        10020           # Rotation rate in RPM
        Not_Zoned       # Zone Mode

root@freenas[~]# camcontrol cmd da0 -v -c "15 10 0 0 v:i1 0" 12 -o 12 "0 0 0 8 0 0:i3 0 v:i3" 512
root@freenas[~]# camcontrol format da0 -y
You are about to REMOVE ALL DATA from the following device:
pass0: <SE_HGST DKR5D-J900SS BEBE> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
pass0: Serial Number KVJZYEKF
pass0: 600.000MB/s transfers, Command Queueing Enabled
Current format timeout is 10800 seconds
Formatting:  98.99 % (64879/65536) done
Format Complete

Also used all that I could find on the internet to make them work, to no avail. Tried

Code:

sg_format -v --format --size=512 /dev/da0 

,

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=104857600

(to zero it and sg-format again); now camcontrol.

I see lots of people saying that it is possible to change the sector and use those drives for something else, but after all I've tried, I think that is not true 100% of the cases.