unable to use any drives

[frreenas]

these drives were used on windows 7 machines had OSes installed on them
screenshot

 

[danb35]

I believe FreeNAS wants the drives wiped before it will use them--it doesn't want to destroy your data. If you drop into the shell as root and do

# cat /dev/zero > /dev/ada0

and then repeat for ada1 and ada2, that should do the trick.

 

[frreenas]

gives me this error

 

[danb35]

Try this one then:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada0 bs=1m

 

[frreenas]

same error "operation not permitted"

 

[danb35]

I think I see the problem when I look more closely at your first screen shot--you've imported (mounted) all three of the drives. Detach them (in the Active Volumes screen, click on one of the drives, then on the icon at the bottom with the red X--repeat with the other two). Then you should be able to use the dd command to wipe them. This will, of course, destroy any data on the drives. What are you planning on doing with three relatively-small drives of different sizes?

 

[frreenas]

i unmounted them before running your commands. also i am using version 8.2 something. should i try updating to the latest

 

[frreenas]

updated to latest version still no luck

 

[danb35]

If the drives are unmounted, and you're root, I don't know what could be causing the problem.

 

[eraser]

Alternative methods you could try to wipe/format your disks:

• FreeNAS WebGUI -> Storage -> View Disks -> Select disk from list -> "Wipe" button at bottom of screen
• Download DBAN [ http://www.dban.org/ ] and use it to wipe all attached drives.
• Attach those drives to a Windows system and use the "diskpart" utility's "CLEAN" command to destroy any partition tables.

 

[gpsguy]

If you choose to use DBAN make sure you select the Quick Erase option. Some options will take many hours or even a day to complete.


Sent from my phone

 

[solarisguy]

If the intended filesystem is ZFS, it is enough to execute

Code:

zpool labelclear -f /dev/ada0
zpool labelclear -f /dev/ada1
zpool labelclear -f /dev/ada2

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zpool

If the above does not work, please provide the output of

Code:

zpool status
mount
smartctl -a -q errorsonly /dev/ada0
smartctl -a -q errorsonly /dev/ada1
smartctl -a -q errorsonly /dev/ada2

 

[frreenas]

 

[solarisguy]

It appears that there could be a fundamental hardware problem, please try
smartctl -t short /dev/ada0
It will tell you how long to wait. After the test has finished, execute the next one
smartctl -t conveyance /dev/ada0
Wait and post the result of
smartctl -a -q noserial /dev/ada0

Also the output of
dmesg | grep ada0

I do not know FreeNAS well, so I do not know whether there are any processes that could lock drives.

 

[frreenas]

i am erasings the disks using DBAN. lets see if it works

 

[frreenas]

it worked. thankyou all