From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Oct 4 16:57:17 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119ED10B2F73 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2018 16:57:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wlosh@bsdimp.com) Received: from mail-it1-x12a.google.com (mail-it1-x12a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::12a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85CA779A35 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2018 16:57:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wlosh@bsdimp.com) Received: by mail-it1-x12a.google.com with SMTP id i76-v6so15014683ita.3 for ; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 09:57:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bsdimp-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=0okaPgFHXvp62SWflqpp0+dQM/xl2bOmeVTScu/w/Pg=; b=UZPaIsDXPt8W7Uz36lxK1XOdqd7ri7IAProLcFiY6UAHesljbLU+kd12ljpNLzfHvX w56HLgtTfBOL+e/m8C+cHX6uwzA4UgVFbw/Yo2jTOFwtxvSbyBR/3szLmPMCvB7PXTAN w+kgxNTHqOSayRQSpOXOWYuPBC3HUmTfgCauW1WjVVmuf6eNoI4MLQdy35JxxS+jGkVG vVAn+vHgCuplDZ+KDOOcbPiqnxrqR8hNmTzonmprMxdVXC0c7H9kpVe0k5nModPYnI15 q4nwopN7EhKmEzt8222MJTgs195HKO/CiQwbf9zz0YhOjkLPe+kSt/Oob0MnHPbB/26s 633Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=0okaPgFHXvp62SWflqpp0+dQM/xl2bOmeVTScu/w/Pg=; b=XI5ZcOCORKC38MdRw1sR5BDpgJIXuM1qg+8AkDFXBqzSoMdrMZGzRuUR6zzc/m2ywd szfJhTsSL8WoXrOS+OfY4EF8KVZOqIwKwdfvA0TM/hqbgiZW6p8SOLaEa3El5Zud66vW rmhSWYRJ9OWLh93UTVbjLSN+epJMBvt+yNcXe4257EgsapURxBROMkZSuf0AgcusqK7b C5fdPQjDGqMCS/IgZeJuCrg7J2JvdS3KE2vvePBF9jdVsBfWKMkLtMU8BedMQfolxX7K qQ+zr/VLeTiF14Y3MI1Wk3LmBDoUobfDbeKqfU+GbIDW0preJMA7E/IaRm+3f2bEdAD8 JeDA== X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfohE1iG7IDav3qkNUjGEpAb7SqaxKFoS4pRqCkQkOOqF03EXyJ96 XSip/TGesd3pirSX2aSiH1njYuGpYUZ4k5fP8VAp73Au X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV61cOZvCEsDM324kQZJ32CiQf34hZ/q66XBjodFePlLEen/xyn/nVXznfz08jcubOE/WzX+AP20PXtg0u3Tztf4= X-Received: by 2002:a05:660c:b03:: with SMTP id f3mr5693540itk.60.1538672235851; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 09:57:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5f37e214-ede9-fea8-6238-339a61c2af33@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5f37e214-ede9-fea8-6238-339a61c2af33@freebsd.org> From: Warner Losh Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 10:57:04 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: AMD RAID support? To: Allan Jude Cc: FreeBSD Current Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.27 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:57:17 -0000 On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 10:37 AM Allan Jude wrote: > On 2018-10-04 12:29, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > > Are there any plans to support AMD RAID? > > > > AMD RAID is _like_ Intel RAID, but has a number of differences. One is > > that it requires UEFI (without UEFI it does not boot, at least). It > comes > > on/with AMD motherboards for Zen and Threadripper processors. It also > only > > supports RAID 0/1/10, that is: no support for 5/50. > > > > Also, unlike Intel RAID, at least initially, the raw disks don't seem to > > show up. That's not entirely true: On some motherboards, NVME RAID is > > supported and the NVME "disks" show up, but the SATA disks do not. > > > > Obviously this is all in the service of mounting the dual-boot windows > > drive. > > This sounds like there's two parts here. The first is that SATA disks aren't showing up. This suggests a different HBA / driver might be needed for them. Or some hacks to ahci to 'unlock' the ports that's preventing discovery. The GEOM issue is just a small matter of book keeping :) Warner