January 11, 20251 yr I have 5 x Samsung 990 PROs in a Terramaster F8 SSD Plus, but I can't seem to format the disks. I can add to a pool, start an array (empty), and select format, but then nothing happens (it's says "Started formatting" but doesn't do anything). A couple of commands I entered, and diagnostics attached: fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1 The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used. Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 3.64 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors Disk model: Samsung SSD 990 PRO with Heatsink 4TB Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 9CB959A0-26DB-4609-B75D-5D8A469614C4 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 7814037134 7814035087 3.6T Linux filesystem and blkdiscard -f /dev/nvme0n1 blkdiscard: Operation forced, data will be lost! blkdiscard: BLKDISCARD: /dev/nvme0n1 ioctl failed: No data available I took the drives from a QNAP, in case they are locked somehow? My plan is to put these all into a single raidz1 or z2 pool, and maybe expand later. Any help much appreciated! zdr-nas-diagnostics-20250111-0032.zip
January 11, 20251 yr Author Solution No, but I think I may have resolved it. I'll confirm once everything is up and running. Success! In short, I had to erase/unlock the disks using their PSIDs. I used sedutil-cli. I couldn't get it working on unraid so put the RESCUE64.img.gz image on a USB stick (using balena etcher) and booted that, then used the following command for each disk: sedutil-cli --yesIreallywanttoERASEALLmydatausingthePSID <PSIDALLCAPSNODASHES> /dev/<disk> Edited January 11, 20251 yr by zdr
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