ZFS Cannot Create Zpool on External USB Chassis

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minorsatellite

I am trying to create a zpool composed of four drives inside a USB enclosure. I initially created a pool composed of a single drive in a single VDEV, then decided the capacity would not be sufficient, destroyed that pool and ever since, I cannot create another pool, each time generating the "one or more devices is currently unavailable" error.

Code: 
zpool create tank raidz1 da96 da97 da98 da99
cannot create 'tank': one or more devices is currently unavailable

I don't have deep knowledge of FreeBSD so I could use some help. Any thoughts?

I am running an older, unsupported version of FreeBSD (10) which we will soon be migrating from.

Thanks in advance!
 
Unfortunately thats not a possibility, its a production system and its going to be replaced in the coming weeks with an all new solution.
I did try 'gpart destroy' but to no effect. I even used full device paths as well, thinking that might make a difference, it did not.
 
Got it working now, I had a flaky drive that I just removed from the RAID set and it worked, this after using gpart destroy several time across each drive.
 
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