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CCISS(4)                            Linux Programmer's Manual                            CCISS(4)



NAME
       cciss - HP Smart Array block driver

SYNOPSIS
       modprobe cciss [ cciss_allow_hpsa=1 ]

DESCRIPTION
       cciss is a block driver for older HP Smart Array RAID controllers.

   Options
       cciss_allow_hpsa=1:  This  option  prevents  the cciss driver from attempting to drive any
       controllers that the hpsa(4) driver is capable of controlling, which is to say, the  cciss
       driver is restricted by this option to the following controllers:

           Smart Array 5300
           Smart Array 5i
           Smart Array 532
           Smart Array 5312
           Smart Array 641
           Smart Array 642
           Smart Array 6400
           Smart Array 6400 EM
           Smart Array 6i
           Smart Array P600
           Smart Array P400i
           Smart Array E200i
           Smart Array E200
           Smart Array E200i
           Smart Array E200i
           Smart Array E200i
           Smart Array E500

   Supported hardware
       The cciss driver supports the following Smart Array boards:

           Smart Array 5300
           Smart Array 5i
           Smart Array 532
           Smart Array 5312
           Smart Array 641
           Smart Array 642
           Smart Array 6400
           Smart Array 6400 U320 Expansion Module
           Smart Array 6i
           Smart Array P600
           Smart Array P800
           Smart Array E400
           Smart Array P400i
           Smart Array E200
           Smart Array E200i
           Smart Array E500
           Smart Array P700m
           Smart Array P212
           Smart Array P410
           Smart Array P410i
           Smart Array P411
           Smart Array P812
           Smart Array P712m
           Smart Array P711m

   Configuration details
       To  configure  HP  Smart Array controllers, use the HP Array Configuration Utility (either
       hpacuxe(8) or hpacucli(8)) or the Offline ROM-based Configuration Utility (ORCA) run  from
       the Smart Array's option ROM at boot time.

FILES
   Device nodes
       The device naming scheme is as follows:

       Major numbers:

           104     cciss0
           105     cciss1
           106     cciss2
           105     cciss3
           108     cciss4
           109     cciss5
           110     cciss6
           111     cciss7

       Minor numbers:

           b7 b6 b5 b4 b3 b2 b1 b0
           |----+----| |----+----|
                |           |
                |           +-------- Partition ID (0=wholedev, 1-15 partition)
                |
                +-------------------- Logical Volume number

       The device naming scheme is:

           /dev/cciss/c0d0         Controller 0, disk 0, whole device
           /dev/cciss/c0d0p1       Controller 0, disk 0, partition 1
           /dev/cciss/c0d0p2       Controller 0, disk 0, partition 2
           /dev/cciss/c0d0p3       Controller 0, disk 0, partition 3

           /dev/cciss/c1d1         Controller 1, disk 1, whole device
           /dev/cciss/c1d1p1       Controller 1, disk 1, partition 1
           /dev/cciss/c1d1p2       Controller 1, disk 1, partition 2
           /dev/cciss/c1d1p3       Controller 1, disk 1, partition 3

   Files in /proc
       The  files  /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]+  contain information about the configuration of
       each controller.  For example:

           $ cd /proc/driver/cciss
           $ ls -l
           total 0
           -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-09-10 10:38 cciss0
           -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-09-10 10:38 cciss1
           -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-09-10 10:38 cciss2
           $ cat cciss2
           cciss2: HP Smart Array P800 Controller
           Board ID: 0x3223103c
           Firmware Version: 7.14
           IRQ: 16
           Logical drives: 1
           Current Q depth: 0
           Current # commands on controller: 0
           Max Q depth since init: 1
           Max # commands on controller since init: 2
           Max SG entries since init: 32
           Sequential access devices: 0

           cciss/c2d0:   36.38GB       RAID 0

   Files in /sys
       /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/model
              Displays the SCSI INQUIRY page 0 model for logical drive Y of controller X.

       /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/rev
              Displays the SCSI INQUIRY page 0 revision for logical drive Y of controller X.

       /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/unique_id
              Displays the SCSI INQUIRY page 83 serial number for logical drive Y  of  controller
              X.

       /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/vendor
              Displays the SCSI INQUIRY page 0 vendor for logical drive Y of controller X.

       /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/block:cciss!cXdY
              A symbolic link to /sys/block/cciss!cXdY.

       /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/rescan
              When  this  file  is  written to, the driver rescans the controller to discover any
              new, removed, or modified logical drives.

       /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/resettable
              A value of 1 displayed in this file indicates  that  the  "reset_devices=1"  kernel
              parameter  (used  by  kdump) is honored by this controller.  A value of 0 indicates
              that the "reset_devices=1" kernel parameter will not be honored.   Some  models  of
              Smart Array are not able to honor this parameter.

       /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/lunid
              Displays the 8-byte LUN ID used to address logical drive Y of controller X.

       /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/raid_level
              Displays the RAID level of logical drive Y of controller X.

       /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/usage_count
              Displays the usage count (number of opens) of logical drive Y of controller X.

   SCSI tape drive and medium changer support
       SCSI  sequential  access  devices and medium changer devices are supported and appropriate
       device nodes are automatically created (e.g., /dev/st0, /dev/st1, etc.; see st(4) for more
       details.)   You  must enable "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx" and "SCSI sup‐
       port" in your kernel configuration to be able to use SCSI  tape  drives  with  your  Smart
       Array 5xxx controller.

       Additionally, note that the driver will not engage the SCSI core at init time.  The driver
       must be directed to dynamically engage the SCSI core via the /proc filesystem entry, which
       the  "block" side of the driver creates as /proc/driver/cciss/cciss* at run time.  This is
       because at driver init time, the SCSI core may not yet be initialized (because the  driver
       is  a  block driver) and attempting to register it with the SCSI core in such a case would
       cause a hang.  This is best done via an initialization script (typically  in  /etc/init.d,
       but could vary depending on distribution).  For example:

           for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]*
           do
               echo "engage scsi" > $x
           done

       Once  the SCSI core is engaged by the driver, it cannot be disengaged (except by unloading
       the driver, if it happens to be linked as a module.)

       Note also that if no sequential access devices or medium changers are detected,  the  SCSI
       core will not be engaged by the action of the above script.

   Hot plug support for SCSI tape drives
       Hot  plugging  of SCSI tape drives is supported, with some caveats.  The cciss driver must
       be informed that changes to the SCSI bus have been made.  This may be done via  the  /proc
       filesystem.  For example:

           echo "rescan" > /proc/scsi/cciss0/1

       This causes the driver to:

              1. query  the adapter about changes to the physical SCSI buses and/or fibre channel
                 arbitrated loop, and

              2. make note of any new or removed sequential access devices or medium changers.

       The driver will output messages indicating which devices have been added  or  removed  and
       the  controller,  bus, target, and lun used to address each device.  The driver then noti‐
       fies the SCSI midlayer of these changes.

       Note that the naming convention of the /proc filesystem entries contains a number in addi‐
       tion to the driver name (e.g., "cciss0" instead of just "cciss", which you might expect).

       Note:  Only sequential access devices and medium changers are presented as SCSI devices to
       the SCSI midlayer by the cciss driver.  Specifically, physical SCSI disk  drives  are  not
       presented  to  the  SCSI midlayer.  The only disk devices that are presented to the kernel
       are logical drives that the array controller  constructs  from  regions  on  the  physical
       drives.   The  logical drives are presented to the block layer (not to the SCSI midlayer).
       It is important for the driver to prevent the kernel from accessing  the  physical  drives
       directly,  since  these  drives  are used by the array controller to construct the logical
       drives.

   SCSI error handling for tape drives and medium changers
       The Linux SCSI midlayer provides an error-handling protocol that is initiated  whenever  a
       SCSI  command  fails to complete within a certain amount of time (which can vary depending
       on the command).  The cciss driver participates in this protocol to some extent.  The nor‐
       mal protocol is a four-step process:

       *  First, the device is told to abort the command.

       *  If that doesn't work, the device is reset.

       *  If that doesn't work, the SCSI bus is reset.

       *  If that doesn't work, the host bus adapter is reset.

       The  cciss  driver is a block driver as well as a SCSI driver and only the tape drives and
       medium changers are presented to the SCSI midlayer.  Furthermore, unlike more straightfor‐
       ward  SCSI drivers, disk I/O continues through the block side during the SCSI error-recov‐
       ery process.  Therefore, the cciss driver implements only the first two of these  actions,
       aborting  the command, and resetting the device.  Note also that most tape drives will not
       oblige in aborting commands, and sometimes it appears they will not even obey a reset com‐
       mand,  though  in  most circumstances they will.  If the command cannot be aborted and the
       device cannot be reset, the device will be set offline.

       In the event that the error-handling code is triggered and a tape  drive  is  successfully
       reset or the tardy command is successfully aborted, the tape drive may still not allow I/O
       to continue until some command is issued that positions the  tape  to  a  known  position.
       Typically  you  must rewind the tape (by issuing mt -f /dev/st0 rewind for example) before
       I/O can proceed again to a tape drive that was reset.

SEE ALSO
       cciss_vol_status(8), hpsa(4), hpacucli(8), hpacuxe(8),

       ⟨http://cciss.sf.net⟩, and  Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt  and  Documentation/ABI/test‐
       ing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss in the Linux kernel source tree

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.74 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the
       project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of  this  page,  can  be
       found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



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