ZFS on 6.12.4 - Just setting up my array, and format doesn't seem to work

Did a preclear to the new drives for burn-in over the past 6 days.

Added a new pool with 5 devices set to raidz2, compression off, autotrim on, enable user share assignment yes, and started my array.  I then went to to the main tab, array, clicked the checkbox by format with the 5 drives showing, clicked the checkbox, acknowledged the warning, and hit format.  I get started formatting, then it goes back to started.  Pool shows a bad device.

Am I doing something wrong here?

edit:  ooh `Nov 14 20:54:57 maxi root: wipefs: /dev/sdb: failed to erase dos magic string at offset 0x000001fe: Operation not permitted`

```

root@maxi:/dev# for i in sdb sdc sdd sde sdf ; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/${i}1 bs=4096 count=4 ; done
dd: error writing '/dev/sdb1': Operation not permitted
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 9.1293e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
dd: error writing '/dev/sdc1': Operation not permitted
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 3.7661e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
dd: error writing '/dev/sdd1': Operation not permitted
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 3.8583e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
dd: error writing '/dev/sde1': Operation not permitted
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 9.7745e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
dd: error writing '/dev/sdf1': Operation not permitted
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 3.5366e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
root@maxi:/dev#
```

same for the raw devices

I need to come back to this in the morning.

Solved.  Had to clear it with the preclear script.

Edited November 15, 20232 yr by bmfrosty