NVMe devices are unavailable when enabling BIOS based VROC RAID on RHEL 8.6

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Issue

  • In RHEL 8.6, whenever RAID is configured under BIOS [fake RAID] the system refuses to boot.
  • If the BIOS based VROC RAID logical device is removed the system detects all the NVMe devices.
10000:81:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller PM9A1/PM9A3/980PRO [144d:a80a] (prog-if 02 [NVM Express])
10000:82:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller PM9A1/PM9A3/980PRO [144d:a80a] (prog-if 02 [NVM Express])
  • In RHEL 8.7 it works fine. If the VROC RAID is configured under BIOS [fake RAID] the system boots normally.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
  • Intel Virtual RAID on CPU (VROC RAID)

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