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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 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
       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  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 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
       address 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
       actions,	 aborting  the	command,  and resetting the device.  Note also
       that most tape drives will not oblige in aborting commands,  and	 some-
       times  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
       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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