experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, John Reynolds wrote:

> The final blow to my sanity was when I rolled back and tried to install 
> 8.4-RELEASE and sysinstall couldn't make the disk devices after I hit 'W' in 
> the disk label editor to commit my changes.

Somewhere, there is a FAQ or note that you should not press "W" in the 
installer.  But a quick check did not find where that was.

> So, I'm wondering generically are people having problems with SSD's in 
> FreeBSD? In this hardware I have not tried using a traditional SATA 
> disk yet.

I use SSDs without problems on 9.2-STABLE amd64, but all on motherboard 
controllers.  The problems you're seeing sound like a controller 
problem.  For reference:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/ssd.html