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4 HPSA - Hewlett Packard Smart Array driver
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7 This file describes the hpsa SCSI driver for HP Smart Array controllers.
8 The hpsa driver is intended to supplant the cciss driver for newer
9 Smart Array controllers. The hpsa driver is a SCSI driver, while the
10 cciss driver is a "block" driver. Actually cciss is both a block
11 driver (for logical drives) AND a SCSI driver (for tape drives). This
12 "split-brained" design of the cciss driver is a source of excess
13 complexity and eliminating that complexity is one of the reasons
28 Additionally, older Smart Arrays may work with the hpsa driver if the kernel
29 boot parameter "hpsa_allow_any=1" is specified, however these are not tested
30 nor supported by HP with this driver. For older Smart Arrays, the cciss
31 driver should still be used.
33 The "hpsa_simple_mode=1" boot parameter may be used to prevent the driver from
34 putting the controller into "performant" mode. The difference is that with simple
35 mode, each command completion requires an interrupt, while with "performant mode"
36 (the default, and ordinarily better performing) it is possible to have multiple
37 command completions indicated by a single interrupt.
39 HPSA specific entries in /sys
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42 In addition to the generic SCSI attributes available in /sys, hpsa supports
43 the following attributes:
45 HPSA specific host attributes
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50 /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/rescan
51 /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/firmware_revision
52 /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/resettable
53 /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/transport_mode
55 the host "rescan" attribute is a write only attribute. Writing to this
56 attribute will cause the driver to scan for new, changed, or removed devices
57 (e.g. hot-plugged tape drives, or newly configured or deleted logical drives,
58 etc.) and notify the SCSI midlayer of any changes detected. Normally this is
59 triggered automatically by HP's Array Configuration Utility (either the GUI or
60 command line variety) so for logical drive changes, the user should not
61 normally have to use this. It may be useful when hot plugging devices like
62 tape drives, or entire storage boxes containing pre-configured logical drives.
64 The "firmware_revision" attribute contains the firmware version of the Smart Array.
67 root@host:/sys/class/scsi_host/host4# cat firmware_revision
70 The transport_mode indicates whether the controller is in "performant"
71 or "simple" mode. This is controlled by the "hpsa_simple_mode" module
74 The "resettable" read-only attribute indicates whether a particular
75 controller is able to honor the "reset_devices" kernel parameter. If the
76 device is resettable, this file will contain a "1", otherwise, a "0". This
77 parameter is used by kdump, for example, to reset the controller at driver
78 load time to eliminate any outstanding commands on the controller and get the
79 controller into a known state so that the kdump initiated i/o will work right
80 and not be disrupted in any way by stale commands or other stale state
81 remaining on the controller from the previous kernel. This attribute enables
82 kexec tools to warn the user if they attempt to designate a device which is
83 unable to honor the reset_devices kernel parameter as a dump device.
85 HPSA specific disk attributes
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90 /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/unique_id
91 /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/raid_level
92 /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/lunid
94 (where c:b:t:l are the controller, bus, target and lun of the device)
98 root@host:/sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device# cat unique_id
99 600508B1001044395355323037570F77
100 root@host:/sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device# cat lunid
102 root@host:/sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device# cat raid_level
108 For compatibility with applications written for the cciss driver, many, but
109 not all of the ioctls supported by the cciss driver are also supported by the
110 hpsa driver. The data structures used by these are described in
111 include/linux/cciss_ioctl.h
113 CCISS_DEREGDISK, CCISS_REGNEWDISK, CCISS_REGNEWD
114 The above three ioctls all do exactly the same thing, which is to cause the driver
115 to rescan for new devices. This does exactly the same thing as writing to the
116 hpsa specific host "rescan" attribute.
119 Returns PCI domain, bus, device and function and "board ID" (PCI subsystem ID).
122 Returns driver version in three bytes encoded as::
124 (major_version << 16) | (minor_version << 8) | (subminor_version)
126 CCISS_PASSTHRU, CCISS_BIG_PASSTHRU
127 Allows "BMIC" and "CISS" commands to be passed through to the Smart Array.
128 These are used extensively by the HP Array Configuration Utility, SNMP storage
129 agents, etc. See cciss_vol_status at http://cciss.sf.net for some examples.