support of PCIe NVME drives

[Miroslav Lachman]

I was requested to install FreeBSD 11.3 on a new Dell machine with only 
2 NVME drives in ZFS mirror. The problem is that installer does not see 
the drives. Are there any special procedure to use NVME drives for 
installation a later for booting?

Drives are described in iDRAC:

Device Description:   PCIe SSD in Slot 1 in Bay 1
Device Protocol:      NVMe-MI1.0
Model:                Dell Express Flash NVMe P4510 1TB SFF
Bus:                  130
Manufacturer:         INTEL
Product ID:           a54
Revision:             VDV1DP23
Enclosure:            PCIe SSD Backplane 1

There is no special HW RAID card.

I switched to a shell in an installer and NVME drives are not listen in 
dmesg.boot.

I tried to manually load nvme and nvd modules but the error messages 
says they are already in the installer kernel.

How can I make it work?


Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman