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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:44:36 +0100
From:      Fleuriot Damien <ml@my.gd>
To:        Robert <traveling08@cox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cant remove raid from Hard drive
Message-ID:  <BB1A747F-BC13-4DC3-ABD5-BEE55BDE068E@my.gd>
In-Reply-To: <20130212075317.002dd257@zorro>
References:  <20130212075317.002dd257@zorro>

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On Feb 12, 2013, at 4:53 PM, Robert <traveling08@cox.net> wrote:

> 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,
> I was able to set up the disk with 
> 
> gpart create -s gpt /dev/raid/r0
> gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -l 500Gig -b 1M
> newfs -U /dev/gpt/500Gig
> 
> I can mount and use the disk but it still shows up at /dev/raid/r0 and
> my dmesg is spammed with
> 
> GEOM_RAID: NVIDIA-1: Array NVIDIA-1 created.
> Root mount waiting for: GRAID-NVIDIA
> Root mount waiting for: GRAID-NVIDIA
> Root mount waiting for: GRAID-NVIDIA
> Root mount waiting for: GRAID-NVIDIA
> Root mount waiting for: GRAID-NVIDIA
> Root mount waiting for: GRAID-NVIDIA
> 
> until it times out or I hit ^c
> 
> uname -a
> FreeBSD zorro.shasta204.local 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #1 r246453:
> Thu Feb  7 11:52:20 PST 2013
> root@zorro.shasta204.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> Robert


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