Re: Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ?

2017-10-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Allan Jude: > > Anyone has any recommendations or experience about how to use native 4K > > disks with FreeBSD? > > --HPS > It is not possible in legacy/BIOS mode, because the BIOS calls do not > let you specify a sector size. > However, you SHOULD be able to boot from the 4k devi

Re: Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ?

2017-10-04 Thread Allan Jude
On 2017-10-04 05:27, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Allan Jude: > >>> Anyone has any recommendations or experience about how to use native 4K >>> disks with FreeBSD? > >>> --HPS > >> It is not possible in legacy/BIOS mode, because the BIOS calls do not >> let you specify a sector size. >

12-current, since 323508 / Sept 13 - smartctl / smartmontools - unable to query drives

2017-10-04 Thread David P. Discher
Seeing an odd behavior - even with r324216 as of about Oct 2nd, smartctl can no longer query any disks Always getting: > sudo smartctl -x /dev/ada0 Password: smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Fra

Re: 12-current, since 323508 / Sept 13 - smartctl / smartmontools - unable to query drives

2017-10-04 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 11:14:00AM -0700, David P. Discher wrote: > Seeing an odd behavior - even with r324216 as of about Oct 2nd, smartctl can > no longer query any disks > > Always getting: > > > sudo smartctl -x /dev/ada0 > Password: > smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 12.0-

Re: 12-current, since 323508 / Sept 13 - smartctl / smartmontools - unable to query drives

2017-10-04 Thread Ultima
Just recently tested smartctl (a few days ago) r324135 and I found that the auto detection seems to be broken but manually selecting the device type works. Are you positive you tested every device type? I was a bit surprised to find that atacam works for my onboard controller and the HBA only work

Re: 12-current, since 323508 / Sept 13 - smartctl / smartmontools - unable to query drives

2017-10-04 Thread David P. Discher
> On Oct 4, 2017, at 11:42 AM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 11:14:00AM -0700, David P. Discher wrote: >> Seeing an odd behavior - even with r324216 as of about Oct 2nd, smartctl can >> no longer query any disks >> >> Anyone have any pointers ? Smartmontools hasn’t chan