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During install, my /dev/sda was not recognized (even though fdisk -l shows it). I did, however, get prompted about enabling RAID devices. | |
blkid /dev/sda | |
/dev/sda: UUID="DELL ^P(" TYPE="ddf_raid_member" | |
dmraid -E -r /dev/sda | |
Do you really want to erase "ddf1" ondisk metadata on /dev/sda? y/n :y | |
ERROR: ddf1: seeking device "/dev/sda" to 12803086946048 | |
ERROR: writing metadata to /dev/sda, offset 250059349504 sectors, size 0 bytes returned 0 | |
ERROR: erasing ondisk metadata on /dev/sda | |
mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sda | |
mdadm: Couldn't open /dev/sda for write - not zeroing | |
One or more drives containing MDADM containers (Intel/DDF RAID) have been found. Do you wish to activate these RAID devices? | |
Activate MDADM containers (Intel/DDF RAID)? | |
One or more drives containing Serial ATA RAID configurations have been found. Do you wish to activate these RAID devices? | |
Activate Serial ATA RAID devices? | |
----- Solution ------- | |
Nuke it! | |
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 seek=$(( $(blockdev --getsz /dev/sda) - 1024 )) count=1024 | |
now, blkid returns no meta data: | |
# blkid /dev/sda | |
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