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

Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 14 01:36:48 UTC 2021


On 2021-Feb-13, at 16:40, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> Are you aware of gpart create?
> 
> Warner

From which I derive that I had an implicit, incorrect
assumption that gpart show would in some way list
everything available that gpart could manipulate
(including for use in creation).

So I need to find such a drive another way, something
I was not even trying to do.

That answers my question. Thanks.

Mark


>> 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.
> 

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