I can't make a pool with an internal drive

[HyperZoneZ]

I installed truenas on my system about a week an a half ago, and when I try to make a new pool, it only lets me use external drives. (I have a core i7 10700F, 48 gb of RAM and I am using a seagate baracuda 4tb hdd)

 

[Samuel Tai]

Yes, any disk you use for the boot pool is no longer available for data storage. This is by design.

 

[HyperZoneZ]

i am using an external drive for the boot pool, none of my internal drives work for storage

 

[Samuel Tai]

OK, that's because TrueNAS won't use any drives with an existing partition table. Go to Storage->Disks and select an internal disk. Run a quick wipe to whack any partition table. It should then be eligible for use in a pool.

 

[HyperZoneZ]

Thanks, ill try that

 

[HyperZoneZ]

i just tried it and it didnt work

 

[Samuel Tai]

The status gets cached at boot. Reboot, and try it again.

 

[HyperZoneZ]

i just rebooted, and they still dont show up

 

[Samuel Tai]

Let's try gpart destroy -F /dev/ada0, assuming you wiped ada0. Change as necessary.

 

[HyperZoneZ]

none of the drives show up to be able to wipe them