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      mcury @stephenw10
      last edited by mcury

      If I may, I would suggest for the OP to watch Level1Techs video:
      Youtube Video

      In summary, this video will explain why use AHCI and create the ZFS mirror is the way to go, as already said by other members above.

      dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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        ozlecz @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 we tried this and it works with 2.6.0 but not in 2.7.2...installation was success but removing either of the disk and booting with either just one of them failed.
        SSD was intel SSD D3-S4510 series 240GB

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Is it booting uefi? You could be hitting this: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15083

          Though I'd expect it to still boot wit the just the first disk present if so.

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            ozlecz @stephenw10
            last edited by

            @stephenw10 few captures below.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Hmm, the 2nd shot there is with the primary drive I assume?

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                ozlecz @stephenw10
                last edited by

                @stephenw10 actually its mixed up...maybe 1 of those were taken when the bios is set to RAID sir

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Ah probably need to see exactly how it's failing in each situation then. But since you are booting EFI t probably will need the manual workaround listed in that bug.

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                    ozlecz @stephenw10
                    last edited by

                    @stephenw10 i was able to duplicate the bug

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      Yup so it can't mount the efi partition on the secondary. Try running the workaround shown on the bug report to populate it.

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                        ozlecz @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10 does this mean disabling the EFI boot in bios should sove this issue as well?

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Yes if you boot legacy that does not hit that bug.

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                            ozlecz @stephenw10
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                            @stephenw10 thank you very much on this...issue solved.

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