1 This driver is for Compaq's SMART Array Controllers.
6 This driver is known to work with the following cards:
15 * SA 6400 U320 Expansion Module
21 If nodes are not already created in the /dev/cciss directory, run as root:
29 You need some entries in /dev for the cciss device. The MAKEDEV script
30 can make device nodes for you automatically. Currently the device setup
44 b7 b6 b5 b4 b3 b2 b1 b0
45 |----+----| |----+----|
47 | +-------- Partition ID (0=wholedev, 1-15 partition)
49 +-------------------- Logical Volume number
51 The device naming scheme is:
52 /dev/cciss/c0d0 Controller 0, disk 0, whole device
53 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 Controller 0, disk 0, partition 1
54 /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 Controller 0, disk 0, partition 2
55 /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 Controller 0, disk 0, partition 3
57 /dev/cciss/c1d1 Controller 1, disk 1, whole device
58 /dev/cciss/c1d1p1 Controller 1, disk 1, partition 1
59 /dev/cciss/c1d1p2 Controller 1, disk 1, partition 2
60 /dev/cciss/c1d1p3 Controller 1, disk 1, partition 3
62 SCSI tape drive and medium changer support
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65 SCSI sequential access devices and medium changer devices are supported and
66 appropriate device nodes are automatically created. (e.g.
67 /dev/st0, /dev/st1, etc. See the "st" man page for more details.)
68 You must enable "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx" and
69 "SCSI support" in your kernel configuration to be able to use SCSI
70 tape drives with your Smart Array 5xxx controller.
72 Additionally, note that the driver will not engage the SCSI core at init
73 time. The driver must be directed to dynamically engage the SCSI core via
74 the /proc filesystem entry which the "block" side of the driver creates as
75 /proc/driver/cciss/cciss* at runtime. This is because at driver init time,
76 the SCSI core may not yet be initialized (because the driver is a block
77 driver) and attempting to register it with the SCSI core in such a case
78 would cause a hang. This is best done via an initialization script
79 (typically in /etc/init.d, but could vary depending on distibution).
82 for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]*
84 echo "engage scsi" > $x
87 Once the SCSI core is engaged by the driver, it cannot be disengaged
88 (except by unloading the driver, if it happens to be linked as a module.)
90 Note also that if no sequential access devices or medium changers are
91 detected, the SCSI core will not be engaged by the action of the above
94 Hot plug support for SCSI tape drives
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97 Hot plugging of SCSI tape drives is supported, with some caveats.
98 The cciss driver must be informed that changes to the SCSI bus
99 have been made, in addition to and prior to informing the SCSI
100 mid layer. This may be done via the /proc filesystem. For example:
102 echo "rescan" > /proc/scsi/cciss0/1
104 This causes the adapter to query the adapter about changes to the
105 physical SCSI buses and/or fibre channel arbitrated loop and the
106 driver to make note of any new or removed sequential access devices
107 or medium changers. The driver will output messages indicating what
108 devices have been added or removed and the controller, bus, target and
109 lun used to address the device. Once this is done, the SCSI mid layer
110 can be informed of changes to the virtual SCSI bus which the driver
111 presents to it in the usual way. For example:
113 echo scsi add-single-device 3 2 1 0 > /proc/scsi/scsi
115 to add a device on controller 3, bus 2, target 1, lun 0. Note that
116 the driver makes an effort to preserve the devices positions
117 in the virtual SCSI bus, so if you are only moving tape drives
118 around on the same adapter and not adding or removing tape drives
119 from the adapter, informing the SCSI mid layer may not be necessary.
121 Note that the naming convention of the /proc filesystem entries
122 contains a number in addition to the driver name. (E.g. "cciss0"
123 instead of just "cciss" which you might expect.)
125 Note: ONLY sequential access devices and medium changers are presented
126 as SCSI devices to the SCSI mid layer by the cciss driver. Specifically,
127 physical SCSI disk drives are NOT presented to the SCSI mid layer. The
128 physical SCSI disk drives are controlled directly by the array controller
129 hardware and it is important to prevent the kernel from attempting to directly
130 access these devices too, as if the array controller were merely a SCSI
131 controller in the same way that we are allowing it to access SCSI tape drives.