# HL8 cannot create Storage Pool

**URL:** https://forum.45homelab.com/t/hl8-cannot-create-storage-pool/3272
**Category:** Hardware
**Tags:** help-and-suggestions
**Created:** [May 4, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/hl8-cannot-create-storage-pool/3272 "2025-05-04T20:25:23Z")
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### Author: ![DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/user_avatar/forum.45homelab.com/digitalgarden/32/1785_2.png) [@DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/u/DigitalGarden)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/hl8-cannot-create-storage-pool/3272/2 "2025-05-04T21:07:02Z")

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Maybe be aware of this thread;

> [@New HL-8 - rough start](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/new-hl-8-rough-start/3115):
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> Hi all, took delivery of a new HL8 and it’s been a little of a rough start: When I installed drives, the “45Drives Disks” tab didn’t show anything even though the disks did show up using ‘lsblk’. Looking in the manual I discovered I needed to manually map the disk slots (found in the troubleshooting section.) Shouldn’t this have been done at the factory since I paid for the full burn in? Once #1 above was done, I set about creating a pool. Pretty simple to accomplish. However, when…

Although, it’s not clear to me if the bugs in cockpit-zfs and/or cockpit-zfs-manager got resolved.

Perhaps start by just confirming here which package is installed and which version. Then maybe someone can advise with whether that might be the cause of your issue and how to proceed.

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