Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:25:44 -0800 From: Robert <traveling08@cox.net> To: Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: SOLVED: Cant remove raid from Hard drive Message-ID: <20130212102544.5afce808@zorro> In-Reply-To: <511A808C.5020805@rdtc.ru> References: <20130212075317.002dd257@zorro> <511A808C.5020805@rdtc.ru>
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:49:00 +0700 Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru> wrote: > 12.02.2013 22:53, Robert пишет: > > Greetings > > > > I am trying to reuse a 500G harddrive that was previously part of an > > NVIDIA raid in a windows box. > > > > I have tried to clean the disk using "dd if=/dev/zero > > of=/dev/raid/r0 bs=1m". The dd program completed but the raid info > > is still on the disk, > > That's because RAID metadata is stored outside RAID itself > (/dev/raid/r0), it occupies last sectors of physical disks. It can be > erased with "graid delete" command, please read man graid. You need > operate on its "Geom name" from "graid list | fgrep Geom" command, > not on symbolic name /dev/raid/r0. You may also need -f flag (again, > read man graid). > > Eugene Grosbein Eugene Thanks for the response. graid delete raid/r0 removed the raid and works perfect. Thanks for the quick answer. Robert
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