On AWS, when hot adding an EBS volume to an EC2 instance, FreeBSD doesn't auto-detect the hot-add event. Manually running "devctl rescan pci0" will detect the newly added device. Rebooting the instance (which also forces a pci rescan at boot) will also work. 12.1-RELEASE-p6 GENERIC amd64 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-amd64-f5af2713-6d84-41f0-95ea-2eaee78f2af4-ami-0de268ac2498ba33d.4 - ami-05c3afd6554d42483 FreeBSD/amd64 releng/12.1@354233 Root Device Type: ebs Virtualization type: hvm t3.small
I'm not sure if this was ever fixed for 12.1 -- but it is fixed in 13 at least by https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21948.