I'm really struggling here. I have some SAS drives that came from a netapp box. I'm unable to get them to create a volume due to "invalid argument" error.
Any ideas? I've hit them with dd to zero them out but am really struggling.
Any ideas? I've hit them with dd to zero them out but am really struggling.
Code:
Environment: Software Version: FreeNAS-11.1-U4 (89e3d93bc) Request Method: POST Request URL: http://172.25.1.25/storage/volumemanager-zfs/ Traceback: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py" in inner 42. response = get_response(request) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in _legacy_get_response 249. response = self._get_response(request) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in _get_response 178. response = middleware_method(request, callback, callback_args, callback_kwargs) File "./freenasUI/freeadmin/middleware.py" in process_view 162. return login_required(view_func)(request, *view_args, **view_kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py" in _wrapped_view 23. return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) File "./freenasUI/storage/views.py" in volumemanager_zfs 268. form.done(request, events) File "./freenasUI/storage/forms.py" in done 724. notifier().create_volume(volume, groups=grouped, init_rand=init_rand) File "./freenasUI/middleware/notifier.py" in create_volume 752. vdevs = self.__prepare_zfs_vdev(vgrp['disks'], vdev_swapsize, encrypt, volume) File "./freenasUI/middleware/notifier.py" in __prepare_zfs_vdev 687. swapsize=swapsize) File "./freenasUI/middleware/notifier.py" in __gpt_labeldisk 359. raise MiddlewareError(f'Unable to GPT format the disk "{devname}": {error}') Exception Type: MiddlewareError at /storage/volumemanager-zfs/ Exception Value: [MiddlewareError: Unable to GPT format the disk "da11": gpart: Invalid argument ]