Pool Creation Error with DD

DrHolzer

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Hello all. I am new to FreeNAS. That said, I have many years of IT experience working with various flavors of *nix (Sun, Free BSD, Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc.). My setup is as follows:
  • 11 identical drives installed in an HPE 3PAR M6710 StoreServ array
  • All bought new and all HP compliant
  • The array is connected to my Dell R610 via a 6GBps Dell/LSI external SAS card
  • I have ESXi 6.5 installed on the server and FreeNAS is a VM on the server
When I try to create the pool in FreeNAS I get the following error:
Failed to wipe disk da5: [EFAULT] Command dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da5 bs=1m count=32 failed (code 1): dd: /dev/da5: Invalid argument 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000605 secs (0 bytes/sec)
Each time the error identifies a different disk. I tried running the dd command from the command line with no success.

I am open to any suggestions. I attached an image of diskinfo output and information about the drives at boot up.
 

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Have you tried wiping the disks under storage | disks ?
 

DrHolzer

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Have you tried wiping the disks under storage | disks ?
When I choose quick wipe I get the same failure message for each disk. When I try fill with zeros or fill with random it starts but shortly thereafter it closes while never getting above zero percent complete. I can mount the array on a Linux guest and see if it works or to get better visibility of any error messages. More to follow.
 

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When I manually execute
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=512 count=1 conv=notrunc
I get the error I receive is
Code:
/dev/da1 - Invalid Argument
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