Error: [EFAULT] Disk: 'sde' is incorrectly formatted with Data Integrity Feature (DIF)

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Hello all

Due to my Stupidity I accidentally screwed my Trunas Scale installation.

I re-installed the latest download of truenas scale on on a supermicro x10.
i had installed 4 hgst 4tb drives and 3 wd 2tb drives (i know that one is faulty and this is why io was going to replace the 3 wd with 3 additional 4tb and add them as a separate vedv)

I wiped the 4 hgst and the proceeded to import the drives and create a new pool

all is fine until i get
Error: [EFAULT] Disk: ‘sde’ is incorrectly formatted with Data Integrity Feature (DIF).

When i try to use the truenas shell and admin@truenas i input
sg-format -v -F /dev/sdg
I get

error opening device … permission denied

How do i totally format these drives so i can add them to a new vdev

Thank you all for you time and help

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You’d need root permissions to run this, so sudo sg-format -v -F /dev/sdg.

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@dan

Thank you for you very quick reply

i will try this

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@dan

Update I did proceed to format all drive and tried to create a new pool.

as i go through the process and select5 the drive and click on the create pool, the software comes back after a short while with the same error as above

i’m stumped

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Well, there’s a lot missing, but I’d point to this to hopefully point you in the right direction:

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According to this Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/12w68uc/how_to_get_rid_of_data_integrity_feature_from/

You need to power cycle too.

Are these drives new?

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@Stux thank you

these drives are 3 years old. i’m currently re-running the low level formatting that was suggested here above.

Each drives takes about 10 hours to format.

Thanks to @dan for his suggestion since my las post i only managed to format 2 drives and i’m about halfway done my third one now.

I looked at the link and personally i do not feel comfortable going the wd route

Thank you all for your help i will know tomorrow or thursday if i am successful

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Did this issue get resolved?

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@REDUNDANT

Thank you for your reply.

I managed to format my 4 main drives.

I took this opportunity to upgrade my boot ssd to a much larger one and reinstalled Truenas scale.

Almost all is not ok.

I still need to resolve may Issue with Rsync.

I will revisit this issue in a seperate post.

Thank you all for all your the help youn provided

You all be well now you hear

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