FreeNAS Error Creating Pool
command ‘(‘gpart’, ‘create’, ‘-s’, ‘gpt’, ‘/dev/da8′)’ returned non-zero exit status 1. If you get this error while trying to create a pool in FreeNAS-11.2-U4.1 or wiping a disk, there seems to be an issue wiping the referenced hard disk (ie. /dev/da8). I don’t have a root cause analysis at this time however sysctl is able to set a flag to ignore the error. I suspect it’s either detecting bad sectors on the physical disk, or a rogue preexisting RAID config, and I have both. Deciding to stripe a couple old WD Raptor 150’s that were used in a previous hardware