HI! I've recently got a SSD device. Yes, not a disk, but a device. It's called, i. e. one of the first REVODRIVEs. It's a PCI-express card with two embedded ssd disks about ~ 55GB size. And it's a raid card. Fake software raid. You can set it up as a RAID0, RAID1, etc and a CONCATENATION. No way to leave it unconfigured or set it as JBOD or something else. You just won't be able to boot from this device in that case. So, I tried to install FreeBSD on it. Actually two fbsd version: FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE amd64 and FreeBSD-CURRENT amd64 based on r297561 . . I used RAID0, RAID1 and CONCATENATION raid configurations and UFS and ZFS (stripe) filesystems. The deivce is seen as raid/r0 and I installed fbsd on it. Here is the result of different attemps. FreeBSD 11-CURRENT r297561 amd64 RAID0 UFS MBR - during installation I immediately get 'unknown error -559038242' GPT - the same and 'Error installing partcode on r0p1' message ZFS MBR - 'Invalid argument' during installation. GPT - 'Invalid argument' during installation. RAID1 UFS MBR - installs and boots w/o problem GPT - installs and boots w/o problem ZFS MBR - 'Invalid argument' during installation. GPT - 'Invalid argument' during installation. CONCATENATION UFS MBR - 'unknown error -559038242' during installation GPT - 'unknown error -559038242' during installation ZFS MBR - 'Invalid argument' during installation. GPT - 'Invalid argument' during installation. FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE amd64 RAID0 UFS MBR - installs and boots w/o problem GPT - installs, but doesn't boot. I can see on the screen: gptboot: error lba 1280 gptboot: No /boot/loader on 0:ad(0p2) gptboot: No /boot/kernel/kernel on 0:ad(0p2) ZFS MBR - 'Invalid argument' during installation. GPT - 'Invalid argument' during installation. RAID1 UFS MBR - installs and boots w/o problem GPT - installs and boots w/o problem ZFS MBR - 'Invalid argument' during installation. GPT - hangs during installation CONCATENATION UFS MBR - installs, but panics during boot GPT - the same, but also I see the following messages on the screen durin boot gpterror 1 lba 234458719 unable to read gpt header ZFS MBR - 'Invalid argument' during installation. GPT - 'Invalid argument' during installation. Also I've attached dmesg and 'geom disk list' output. I'm ready to try some patches and help to solve this problem!
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