Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:36:35 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New Optane AIC does not show up in FreeBSD until . . . ? Message-ID: <85821016-60AA-4E9C-94DB-9FAD1E718182@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqOptgzp_kqxEVY67GsM%2B7tpeZcNt-O--CLFFyNz0_eyw@mail.gmail.com> References: <9FAFDEE8-97DA-4FF7-AADB-4BFC14F07E13.ref@yahoo.com> <9FAFDEE8-97DA-4FF7-AADB-4BFC14F07E13@yahoo.com> <CANCZdfqOptgzp_kqxEVY67GsM%2B7tpeZcNt-O--CLFFyNz0_eyw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2021-Feb-13, at 16:40, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote: > Are you aware of gpart create? >=20 > Warner =46rom 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@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.) >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >>=20 >> FYI, FreeBSD based on main 3acea07c1873 : >>=20 >> # ~/fbsd-based-on-what-freebsd-main.sh=20 >> 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 >>=20 >> But this is not a new thing, more of a "still true" >> thing. >=20 =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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