Error when formatting disks

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Hi there, I’m running into an issue formatting some disks connected to my Intel NUC running ZimaOS. The disks are connected through USB-C via a DAS. The disks are being seen in the Storage app but when I go to enable & format them I receive a “exit status 1” error.

I have a total of three, 3TB disks connected. One is working just fine and I can browse the files located on the disk but the other two are detected, I am just unable to format them. The error given does not give me much context into what is happening. Any ideas?

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I had that too. I fixed it by: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1

Replace hdx with your disk. you need to do it at the cli. it will wipe all the data and partitions on the disk. Then I rebooted and it was available to enable and format. Hope this helps. Oh you can do the same if you plug the disk into a windows box and use diskpart to clean it.

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