New Optane AIC does not show up in FreeBSD until . . . ?

[Mark Millard]

I plugged in a new Optane and booted FreeBSD on the
ThreadRipper 1950X system but FreeBSD did not show
the drive in gpart show. (It is unique by size in the
context and so would be hard to miss for anything
that listed sizes. Lack of listing a size would also
stand out.)

So I did what I've done in the past: shutdown FreeBSD,
boot Windows 10, go to its disk management utility,
answer its prompt for MBR vs. GPT for the new device
(picking GPT), shutdown Windows 10. Then boot FreeBSD
again --and the new drive shows up.

Is there a way to avoid the round trip through
Windows 10 (or any other such round trip going
outside FreeBSD)? I'm just curious if I've missed
something: My work around enables my activity.


FYI, FreeBSD based on main 3acea07c1873 :

# ~/fbsd-based-on-what-freebsd-main.sh 
merge-base: 3acea07c1873b1e4042f4a4fa8668745ee59f15b
merge-base: CommitDate: 2021-02-08 19:15:21 +0000
c1845d00f818 (HEAD -> mm-src) mm-src snapshot for mm's patched build in git context.
3acea07c1873 (pure-src) Restore the augmented strlen commentary
FreeBSD FBSDFHUGE 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT mm-src-n244686-c1845d00f818 GENERIC-NODBG  amd64 amd64 1400004 1400004

But this is not a new thing, more of a "still true"
thing.

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Mark Millard
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