From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Apr 21 08:01:41 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A092B16AA7 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:01:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-lists@dudes.ch) Received: from mail.dudes.ch (mail.dudes.ch [193.73.211.25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.dudes.ch", Issuer "StartCom Class 2 Primary Intermediate Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2CBAD1BE1 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:01:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-lists@dudes.ch) Received: from mwoffice.virtualtec.office ([93.189.66.120]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.dudes.ch (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id u3L7s7Mg006754 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2016 07:54:07 GMT (envelope-from fbsd-lists@dudes.ch) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.dudes.ch: Host [93.189.66.120] claimed to be mwoffice.virtualtec.office Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:54:06 +0200 From: Markus Wild To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OCZ ssdpx-1rvd0120 REVODRIVE support Message-ID: <20160421095406.622a57d4@mwoffice.virtualtec.office> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 193.73.211.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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, 21 Apr 2016 08:01:41 -0000 > > > 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. I used to have one of these in my workstation (mine was recognized as 4 SATA drives of about 60GB). I had put these into a zfs pool with raidz1 and was able to boot from the card without any issue. BIOS reported them as 4 individual drives. These are pre-NVME, so no NVME driver was necessary. Unfortunately, the card recently died of old age, so I can't provide any more than historic references. The type was OCZSSDPX-1RVDX0240 . Cheers, Markus