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Thanks everyone for the info. I did use the camcontrol secure erase I referenced in the original post without an issue. Running camcontrol identify on the drive afterwards shows that security is not enabled, which I was concerned it would be. I did consider @phoenix's recommendation, but I...

It was enabled, but there was a lot of data before the partition was deleted. I don't think garbage collection had any time to run before hand. Long story on what happend. :OOO

I've got a couple of SSDs that I want to repurpose for ZIL and L2ARC. I want to ensure the previous usage doesn't negatively affect performance. I remember in the past that a secure erase was the only way to restore performance and I haven't found anything to the contrary yet. I investigated...

Based on the type of failures, I'm hoping all is not lost. I have three drives in a raidz1. Drive 0's controller decided to quit working. A bunch of GB of data was written to the array while it was in a degraded state. A few hours later Drive 1 decided it will click and screech going forward. I...

Background: So I know better, but just like many I spend most of my time fixing other people's stuff rather than maintaining my own and I never got around to implementing my backup solution. I have two drives that failed close to each other and I didn't have enough time to replace the first...

I appreciate it killasmurf. I did find this thread which references the ddrescue, testdisk, and photorec recovery programs. I'll be giving these a try and hopefully I'll be able to recover some of what I need.

Apparently this isn't my week. In a nice line of screw-ups I deleted the contents of my archive drive. I acted before I thought to double-check what I was doing; I blame my obnoxious neighbors for sleep depriving me with their constant racket. The drive has a single partition with UFS and I...

So I'm an idiot. For some reason I got it in my head that /etc needed its own slice. Obviously it doesn't and shouldn't ever. I feel like such a n00b. I'd edit my original post so it doesn't show up in the search results of searches for the numerous possible terms it has, but I've past my 2...

I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 (AMD64). The install completes fine, however when attempting to boot I am presented with the "Manual root filesystem specification" and mountroot> prompt. I am able to specify the filesystem and partition slice to mount root. From there I am able to...

I have an old PIII 900MHz computer I use as a server that I've been running FreeBSD on for years now. The time has come to upgrade my RAID array to something a bit larger. I was considering using three 1.5TB HDDs in a ZFS RAID-Z. Would RAID-Z overtax the P3 or would the system be able to...

Thank You guys! I really do look forward to this new forum. I hope it wont be too much to mod and will be a permanent resource for all that is FreeBSD. Cheers.