can't make volumes

[lowridersten]

Ok, I have 3 WD hdd. 2 are 500 GB the other is 320 GB, I can get the 320 to take a volume but I can't get the 2 500's to. I get an error unable to GPT format the disk "ada0".
Starting to get a little peeved..

All drives have been formatted, and like I said the 320 takes the volume with no problem.


BTW...I just dl freenas and wanted to try it out.​

 

[Rand]

Do those drive work on another system?
Are they found and identified correctly?
Can they be used from say a linux or freebsd live cd?

 

[joeschmuck]

Please list your system specs. In the meantime you could download a program called GParted and boot from that CD, then delete any partitions. Where did these 500GB drives come from, were they part of a RAID?

 

[lowridersten]

Yes, they work in another system, yes they are id correctly. They came out of a windows xp box and are only 2 yrs old. I hooked them up to active boot disk and formatted them, then hooked them up to a windows box and formatted them again to make sure they were done correctly. I was thinking of putting them into RAID, but didn't.



FreeNAS-9.2.1.3-RELEASE-x64
PlatformPentium (R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz
Memory 3818MB

 

[lowridersten]

I just tried to import volume onto the 500 it actually did something, but then tells me error getting available space, and error getting total space.

 

[cyberjock]

You should check out the hardware requirements for FreeNAS... 8GB is the minimum for ZFS without FreeNAS behaving erratically.

 

[lowridersten]

I was using UFS, even ZFS won't format the drive.

 

[cyberjock]

Ok.. I want to conduct an experiment since I never have this problem myself.. any chance we could do a teamviewer session? If so, PM me. I can fix your problem, but I'd like to try an experiment to see if that works for future users that have your problem.

Edit: I'm also in IRC...

 

[lowridersten]

No, but you can tell me the experiment and I will do it. I am not a noob in IT just a noob at this.

 

[cyberjock]

It's rather complicated so I can't really explain it. There's ifs/and thens.. it's not a do step 1,2 and 3 or I'd have listed the steps. :(