CCISS(4)



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

NAME
       cciss - HP Smart Array block driver

SYNOPSIS
       modprobe cciss [ cciss_allow_hpsa=1 ]

DESCRIPTION
       Note: This obsolete driver was removed from the kernel in version 4.14,
       as it is superseded by the hpsa(4) driver in newer kernels.

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

   Options
       cciss_allow_hpsa=1: This option prevents the cciss driver from attempt-
       ing to drive any controllers that the hpsa(4) driver is capable of con-
       trolling, which is to say, the cciss driver is restricted by  this  op-
       tion 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  "re-
              set_devices=1"  kernel  parameter  (used by kdump) is honored by
              this controller.  A value of 0  indicates  that  the  "reset_de-
              vices=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  be-
       cause  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  mod-
       ule.)

       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  ad-
       dress each device.  The driver then notifies the SCSI midlayer of these
       changes.

       Note that the naming convention of the /proc  filesystem  entries  con-
       tains  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.  Specifi-
       cally, physical SCSI disk drives are not presented  to  the  SCSI  mid-
       layer.  The only disk devices that are presented to the kernel are log-
       ical 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 proto-
       col 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 contin-
       ues through the block side  during  the  SCSI  error-recovery  process.
       Therefore,  the cciss driver implements only the first two of these ac-
       tions, 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 circum-
       stances  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
       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

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