I am trying to format some new drives (initialize them). I tried to add them to freenas zpool a few years ago, and when they formatted, they formatted weird because the raid controller did not recognize 3 tb drives I think they showed up as 2.2 tb or something.
I've since upgraded hardware that supports it, and am trying to use these drives now. They seem to be completely messed up. Freenas will recognize the drives, but errors out when trying to add them to a pool. It gives me some sort of read only error. I plug them into a windows box and try to initialize them as a gpt, and get "cannot access file" or something like that. I try to initialize them as mbr in windows and get a "cyclic redundancy check" error. I've tried formatting the partition table using gparted in linux, and I get read only file system errors. It shows that a partition is outside of the disk. I found a tutorial on gparted website to correct this issue, and could not make any changes due to the read only. I tried using diskpart in windows to remove read only attributes, and it failed. I've tried using minitool partition and the drive shows up as "bad disk" when I plug it in. I thought that it could redo the partition table and wipe the whole disk out as if it were brand new. I try doing the partition restoration, and let it run all night long. When I woke up, I did some math on the number of sectors scanned vs how many remain and it would take roughly 9,600 days to complete. Obviously that is not going to be useful.
I tried writing all zeros using WD disk tool, and got an error right away.
2 of the drives are WD red 3TB drives, and the other 2 are Toshiba 3TB drives.
Any ideas on what I can do? I have 4 disks all with the same problem, I've tried everything I can think of. They are brand new other than being added to freenas one time, with no actual data being written to them.
I refuse to believe there is no way to just "reset" them as if they were brand new from factory.
Thanks in advance!
I've since upgraded hardware that supports it, and am trying to use these drives now. They seem to be completely messed up. Freenas will recognize the drives, but errors out when trying to add them to a pool. It gives me some sort of read only error. I plug them into a windows box and try to initialize them as a gpt, and get "cannot access file" or something like that. I try to initialize them as mbr in windows and get a "cyclic redundancy check" error. I've tried formatting the partition table using gparted in linux, and I get read only file system errors. It shows that a partition is outside of the disk. I found a tutorial on gparted website to correct this issue, and could not make any changes due to the read only. I tried using diskpart in windows to remove read only attributes, and it failed. I've tried using minitool partition and the drive shows up as "bad disk" when I plug it in. I thought that it could redo the partition table and wipe the whole disk out as if it were brand new. I try doing the partition restoration, and let it run all night long. When I woke up, I did some math on the number of sectors scanned vs how many remain and it would take roughly 9,600 days to complete. Obviously that is not going to be useful.
I tried writing all zeros using WD disk tool, and got an error right away.
2 of the drives are WD red 3TB drives, and the other 2 are Toshiba 3TB drives.
Any ideas on what I can do? I have 4 disks all with the same problem, I've tried everything I can think of. They are brand new other than being added to freenas one time, with no actual data being written to them.
I refuse to believe there is no way to just "reset" them as if they were brand new from factory.
Thanks in advance!