SOLVED: Cant remove raid from Hard drive

[Robert]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:49:00 +0700
Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein at rdtc.ru> wrote:

> 12.02.2013 22:53, Robert пишет:
> > Greetings
> > 
> > I am trying to reuse a 500G harddrive that was previously part of an
> > NVIDIA raid in a windows box.
> > 
> > I have tried to clean the disk using "dd if=/dev/zero
> > of=/dev/raid/r0 bs=1m". The dd program completed but the raid info
> > is still on the disk,
> 
> That's because RAID metadata is stored outside RAID itself
> (/dev/raid/r0), it occupies last sectors of physical disks. It can be
> erased with "graid delete" command, please read man graid. You need
> operate on its "Geom name" from "graid list | fgrep Geom" command,
> not on symbolic name /dev/raid/r0. You may also need -f flag (again,
> read man graid).
> 
> Eugene Grosbein

Eugene

Thanks for the response. graid delete raid/r0 removed the raid and
works perfect.

Thanks for the quick answer.

Robert