FreeNAS 9.2.1.6: MiddlewareError: Unable to GPT format the disk "da3"

[esamett]

I am trying to recover from the Samba/CIFS permissions problem and want to move my data to a new volume. I have 4 drives that seem to test ok. I have wiped them with gparted, tried to put new ntfs on with gparted, then removed MBR with HGST utility. I have changed drives, changes cables and controllers from IBM 1015 to old Intel 2TB card (changes to da6.) Error always comes up. This is hardware that seems to be working.

I have 8 core AMD, 16GB ECC ram. Two existing volumes.

I reviewed:
http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/unable-to-gpt-format-disk-ada2-various-issues.17342/

http://forums.freenas.org/index.php...rror-unable-to-gpt-format-the-disk-ada0.3738/

There are no volumes to auto add. Geom comes up blank. I detached and reattached my existing volumes.

I am in quite a pickle now. I am unable to make new volumes and I can't take down my volumes with bad ACLS until I fix this.


Here is info from FreeNAS:



Aug 2 13:00:00 freenas newsyslog[4033]: logfile turned over due to size>100K
Aug 2 13:00:08 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Device ada0p1.eli destroyed.
Aug 2 13:00:08 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Detached ada0p1.eli on last close.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Device ada1p1.eli destroyed.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Detached ada1p1.eli on last close.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Device ada2p1.eli destroyed.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Detached ada2p1.eli on last close.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Device ada3p1.eli destroyed.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Detached ada3p1.eli on last close.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Device ada5p1.eli destroyed.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Detached ada5p1.eli on last close.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Device da5p1.eli destroyed.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Detached da5p1.eli on last close.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Device ada4p1.eli destroyed.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Detached ada4p1.eli on last close.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas notifier: swapoff: removing /dev/ada0p1.eli as swap device
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Device da6p1.eli destroyed.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Detached da6p1.eli on last close.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Device ada6p1.eli destroyed.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas kernel: GEOM_ELI: Detached ada6p1.eli on last close.
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas notifier: swapoff: removing /dev/ada1p1.eli as swap device
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas notifier: swapoff: removing /dev/ada2p1.eli as swap device
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas notifier: swapoff: removing /dev/ada3p1.eli as swap device
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas notifier: swapoff: removing /dev/ada5p1.eli as swap device
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas notifier: swapoff: removing /dev/da5p1.eli as swap device
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas notifier: swapoff: removing /dev/ada4p1.eli as swap device
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas notifier: swapoff: removing /dev/da6p1.eli as swap device
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas notifier: swapoff: removing /dev/ada6p1.eli as swap device
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas notifier: dd: /dev/da3: Operation not permitted
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas notifier: dd: /dev/da3: Operation not permitted
Aug 2 13:00:09 freenas manage.py: [middleware.exceptions:38] [MiddlewareError: Unable to GPT format the disk "da3"]

 

[gpsguy]

When all else fails, try DBAN (http://www.dban.org/) with the quick wipe option.

 

[esamett]

I just had success with one Hitachi drive (!) using their utility for disk wipe. Will advise any other problems. Thanks for heads up. I was worried that there was a FreeNAS bug and would need to build a legacy box to initialize volume.

p.s. I used GPARTED to wipe MBR. I didn't try full erase until now.