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Date:      Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:23:47 +0000
From:      "Dave Cottlehuber" <dch@skunkwerks.at>
To:        void <void@f-m.fm>
Cc:        sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: problem with zfs raidz3 install on an 8-disk system, can't find loader
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On Thu, 7 Nov 2024, at 12:58, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
>>>hardware is ProLiant DL380e Gen8 with 8* 4Tb seagate constellation
>>>attached to Smart Array P440 Controller in HBA (JBOD) mode.
>
> I don't see any general reason why this wouldn't work, people
> have used it in the past - 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2017-September/087746.html 

Assuming this is detected as a ciss device, have you got `ciss_load="YES"`
in your /boot/loader.conf per http://man.freebsd.org/ciss ?

I'm assuming this is a UEFI partition layout, also.

There is also a hw.ciss.verbose=2 tunable, which may provide more info
if it gets that far.

A+
Dave



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