Problems Replacing Drive, Can't Format New Drive

[asai]

Greetings,

We're using a Supermicro SSG-6048R-E1CR24L
2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 v4 @ 1.70GHz
64 GB RAM
SAS3 via LSI 3008 controller
8 x Seagate 3.5 HDD 6TB 7200RPM 12Gb/s SAS 128 MB Cache Internal Bare Drive ST6000NM0034

I had a drive that seemed to keep failing (I say seemed because I'm not sure if it's the controller) and I bought a replacement for it, but after following the instructions on replacing the drive, it's just giving me these errors:

• Cannot Format GPT Partition
• dd: /dev/da3: Operation not permitted

If I try to change the kernel flags to
sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16

I get

Code:

[MiddlewareError: Failed to wipe da3: dd: /dev/da3: Invalid argument
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.009787 secs (0 bytes/sec)
]

These new drives are supposed to be exactly the same and as far as I can tell, they are.

If I grep dmesg I get endless errors.

Code:

videonas2# dmesg | grep da3
da3 at mpr0 bus 0 scbus0 target 19 lun 0
da3: <SEAGATE ST6000NM0034 NE02> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
da3: Serial Number Z4D2SN9V0000R601MG5N
da3: 1200.000MB/s transfers
da3: Command Queueing enabled
da3: 5723166MB (11721045168 512 byte sectors)
ses0: da3: Element descriptor: 'Slot11'
ses0: da3: SAS Device Slot Element: 1 Phys at Slot 11
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): READ(16). CDB: 88 00 00 00 00 02 ba a0 f4 ae 00 00 00 01 00 00
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0 (Invalid command operation code)
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): Field Replaceable Unit: 0
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): Descriptor 0x80: 00 00 00 00 ff 2d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): Error 22, Unretryable error
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): READ(16). CDB: 88 00 00 00 00 02 ba a0 f4 af 00 00 00 01 00 00
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): SCSI sense: ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0 (Invalid command operation code)
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): Field Replaceable Unit: 0
(da3:mpr0:0:19:0): Descriptor 0x80: 00 00 00 00 ff 2d 00 00 00

So I'm stuck. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[BigDave]

There could be a few things going on here. Have you burned in the new drive, or at least run SMART tests on it.
Just because it's new does not mean it's good.
Check your cables, cam status errors are a common cable issues.
Try and think of a bit more information to provide a
clearer picture so we may help you without playing 20 questions.

 

[CraigD]

If your having trouble doing this in freeNAS, just pop the drive into a system with an OS you can use and delete the volumes/partitions on the drive

I used Windows

Have Fun