I had a (maybe) comparable issue when doing my first tests with osol. Did an installation, messed things up, started over. After a while, I noticed that the new installation showed pools from a previous install. Something got picked up by 'zpool'. As in your case something is seen by the re-import.
My way out of it: zero fill the whole drive. I used shred on linux so check the syntax. shred -v -i 1 /dev/dsk/..... I assume you have made sure the disk is really ok..... Possibly there are more elegant ways of doing this, but I have not found them. Martin -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
