New Optane AIC does not show up in FreeBSD until . . . ?
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Feb 14 00:41:09 UTC 2021
Are you aware of gpart create?
Warner
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021, 4:41 PM Mark Millard via freebsd-current <
freebsd-current at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
> ( dsl-only.net went
> away in early 2018-Mar)
>
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