cciss.txt
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- This driver is for Compaq's SMART Array Controllers.
- Supported Cards:
- ----------------
- This driver is known to work with the following cards:
- * SA 5300
- * SA 5i
- * SA 532
- * SA 5312
- If nodes are not already created in the /dev/cciss directory
- # mkdev.cciss [ctlrs]
- Where ctlrs is the number of controllers you have (defaults to 1 if not
- specified).
- Device Naming:
- --------------
- You need some entries in /dev for the cciss device. The mkdev.cciss script
- can make device nodes for you automatically. Currently the device setup
- is as follows:
- Major numbers:
- 104 cciss0
- 105 cciss1
- 106 cciss2
- etc...
- Minor numbers:
- b7 b6 b5 b4 b3 b2 b1 b0
- |----+----| |----+----|
- | |
- | +-------- Partition ID (0=wholedev, 1-15 partition)
- |
- +-------------------- Logical Volume number
- The suggested 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
- 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 the "st" man page 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 runtime. 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 distibution).
- 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, in addition to and prior to informing the the SCSI
- mid layer. This may be done via the /proc filesystem. For example:
- echo "rescan" > /proc/scsi/cciss0/1
- This causes the adapter to query the adapter about changes to the
- physical SCSI buses and/or fibre channel arbitrated loop and the
- driver to make note of any new or removed sequential access devices
- or medium changers. The driver will output messages indicating what
- devices have been added or removed and the controller, bus, target and
- lun used to address the device. Once this is done, the SCSI mid layer
- can be informed of changes to the virtual SCSI bus which the driver
- presents to it in the usual way. For example:
- echo add-single-device 3 2 1 0 > /proc/scsi/scsi
-
- to add a device on controller 3, bus 2, target 1, lun 0. Note that
- the driver makes an effort to preserve the devices positions
- in the virtual SCSI bus, so if you are only moving tape drives
- around on the same adapter and not adding or removing tape drives
- from the adapter, informing the SCSI mid layer may not be necessary.
- 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.) This is because
- of changes to the 2.4 kernel PCI interface related to PCI hot plug
- that imply the driver must register with the SCSI mid layer once per
- adapter instance rather than once per driver.
- Note: ONLY sequential access devices and medium changers are presented
- as SCSI devices to the SCSI mid layer by the cciss driver. Specifically,
- physical SCSI disk drives are NOT presented to the SCSI mid layer. The
- physical SCSI disk drives are controlled directly by the array controller
- hardware and it is important to prevent the OS from attempting to directly
- access these devices too, as if the array controller were merely a SCSI
- controller in the same way that we are allowing it to access SCSI tape drives.