Hey,
I've had to rebuild a RAID array on a customer server (actually I remade it completely). While at it, I upgraded ESXi from 4.1 to 5.0 u1. After this I can't add the RAID array to storage. I gather as much it's the previous file system that's f-ed up somehow, but it seems no matter what I do I can't completely erase everything on it. These are the commands I've tried:
vmkfstools -C vmfs3 /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.22570001555c70ed
This gives me:
Failed to check for existing file system on device '/vmfs/devices/disks/eui.22570001555c70ed'.
Usage: vmkfstools -C [vmfs3|vmfs5] /vmfs/devices/disks/vml... or,
vmkfstools -C [vmfs3|vmfs5] /vmfs/devices/disks/naa... or,
vmkfstools -C [vmfs3|vmfs5] /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhbaA:T:L:P
Error: Unable to access device, please check your connection to the device.
fdisk -l /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.22570001555c70ed
Gives me:
***
*** The fdisk command is deprecated: fdisk does not handle GPT partitions. Please use partedUtil
***
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)
Disk /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.22570001555c70ed: 1999.9 GB, 1999999336448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 4096 = 65802240 bytes
Disk /vmfs/devices/disks/eui.22570001555c70ed doesn't contain a valid partition table
partedUtil mklabel /dev/disks/eui.22570001555c70ed msdos
Gives me:
Warning: Device /dev/disks/eui.22570001555c70ed has a logical sector size of 4096. Not all parts of GNU Parted support this at the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL.
*** glibc detected *** <unknown>: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0804f200 ***
*** glibc detected *** <unknown>: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0804f408 ***
dd if=/dev/zero of="/vmfs/devices/disks/eui.22570001555c70ed" bs=4096 count=34 conv=notrunc
dd if=/dev/zero of="/vmfs/devices/disks/eui.22570001555c70ed" bs=4096 count=34 seek=488281054 conv=notrunc
This seems to work, as I get expected results back, but running the above commands again gives the same results though. Can someone please help me with this? 