On 01/08/12 11:43, Skip Coombe wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > > I did "dd -if=/dev/zero -of=/dev/sdc" and modified the the partition to 83. I've not seen this command line format, and not sure it is valid. I've always used: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc Also, can you confirm that this command completed successfully. If it failed to zero to the end of the disk, then there may still be some metadata available at the end of the disk. Failing this, you would need to wait for someone else more knowledgeable than me to comment. Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers Ph: +61 2 8304 0000 adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +61 2 8304 0001 www.websitemanagers.com.au -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html