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This driver is for Compaq's SMART Array Controllers.
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Supported Cards:
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This driver is known to work with the following cards:
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* SA 5300
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* SA 5i
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* SA 532
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* SA 5312
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* SA 641
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* SA 642
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* SA 6400
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* SA 6400 U320 Expansion Module
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* SA 6i
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* SA P600
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* SA P800
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* SA E400
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If nodes are not already created in the /dev/cciss directory, run as root:
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# cd /dev
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# ./MAKEDEV cciss
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Device Naming:
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You need some entries in /dev for the cciss device. The MAKEDEV script
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can make device nodes for you automatically. Currently the device setup
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is as follows:
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Major numbers:
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104 cciss0
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105 cciss1
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106 cciss2
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105 cciss3
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108 cciss4
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109 cciss5
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110 cciss6
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111 cciss7
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Minor numbers:
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b7 b6 b5 b4 b3 b2 b1 b0
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|----+----| |----+----|
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| +-------- Partition ID (0=wholedev, 1-15 partition)
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+-------------------- Logical Volume number
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The device naming scheme is:
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/dev/cciss/c0d0 Controller 0, disk 0, whole device
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/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 Controller 0, disk 0, partition 1
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/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 Controller 0, disk 0, partition 2
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/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 Controller 0, disk 0, partition 3
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/dev/cciss/c1d1 Controller 1, disk 1, whole device
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/dev/cciss/c1d1p1 Controller 1, disk 1, partition 1
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/dev/cciss/c1d1p2 Controller 1, disk 1, partition 2
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/dev/cciss/c1d1p3 Controller 1, disk 1, partition 3
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SCSI tape drive and medium changer support
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SCSI sequential access devices and medium changer devices are supported and
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appropriate device nodes are automatically created. (e.g.
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/dev/st0, /dev/st1, etc. See the "st" man page for more details.)
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You must enable "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx" and
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"SCSI support" in your kernel configuration to be able to use SCSI
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tape drives with your Smart Array 5xxx controller.
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Additionally, note that the driver will not engage the SCSI core at init
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time. The driver must be directed to dynamically engage the SCSI core via
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the /proc filesystem entry which the "block" side of the driver creates as
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/proc/driver/cciss/cciss* at runtime. This is because at driver init time,
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the SCSI core may not yet be initialized (because the driver is a block
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driver) and attempting to register it with the SCSI core in such a case
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would cause a hang. This is best done via an initialization script
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(typically in /etc/init.d, but could vary depending on distibution).
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For example:
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for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]*
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do
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echo "engage scsi" > $x
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done
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Once the SCSI core is engaged by the driver, it cannot be disengaged
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(except by unloading the driver, if it happens to be linked as a module.)
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Note also that if no sequential access devices or medium changers are
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detected, the SCSI core will not be engaged by the action of the above
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script.
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Hot plug support for SCSI tape drives
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Hot plugging of SCSI tape drives is supported, with some caveats.
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The cciss driver must be informed that changes to the SCSI bus
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have been made, in addition to and prior to informing the SCSI
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mid layer. This may be done via the /proc filesystem. For example:
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echo "rescan" > /proc/scsi/cciss0/1
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This causes the adapter to query the adapter about changes to the
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physical SCSI buses and/or fibre channel arbitrated loop and the
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driver to make note of any new or removed sequential access devices
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or medium changers. The driver will output messages indicating what
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devices have been added or removed and the controller, bus, target and
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lun used to address the device. Once this is done, the SCSI mid layer
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can be informed of changes to the virtual SCSI bus which the driver
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presents to it in the usual way. For example:
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echo scsi add-single-device 3 2 1 0 > /proc/scsi/scsi
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to add a device on controller 3, bus 2, target 1, lun 0. Note that
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the driver makes an effort to preserve the devices positions
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in the virtual SCSI bus, so if you are only moving tape drives
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around on the same adapter and not adding or removing tape drives
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from the adapter, informing the SCSI mid layer may not be necessary.
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Note that the naming convention of the /proc filesystem entries
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contains a number in addition to the driver name. (E.g. "cciss0"
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instead of just "cciss" which you might expect.)
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Note: ONLY sequential access devices and medium changers are presented
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as SCSI devices to the SCSI mid layer by the cciss driver. Specifically,
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physical SCSI disk drives are NOT presented to the SCSI mid layer. The
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physical SCSI disk drives are controlled directly by the array controller
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hardware and it is important to prevent the kernel from attempting to directly
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access these devices too, as if the array controller were merely a SCSI
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controller in the same way that we are allowing it to access SCSI tape drives.
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