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

NAME         top

       cciss - HP Smart Array block driver

SYNOPSIS         top

       modprobe cciss [ cciss_allow_hpsa=1 ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       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         top

   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
       support" 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 notifies the SCSI midlayer of
       these changes.
       Note that the naming convention of the /proc filesystem entries
       contains a number in addition 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 normal
       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 straightforward SCSI drivers,
       disk I/O continues through the block side during the SCSI error-
       recovery 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
       command, 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         top

       hpsa(4), cciss_vol_status(8), hpacucli(8), hpacuxe(8)
       ⟨http://cciss.sf.net⟩, and Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt and Docu‐
       mentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss in the Linux kernel
       source tree

COLOPHON         top

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