195 lines
7.3 KiB
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195 lines
7.3 KiB
Plaintext
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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* SA P400i
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* SA E200
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* SA E200i
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* SA E500
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* SA P700m
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* SA P212
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* SA P410
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* SA P410i
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* SA P411
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* SA P812
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* SA P712m
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* SA P711m
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Detecting drive failures:
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To get the status of logical volumes and to detect physical drive
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failures, you can use the cciss_vol_status program found here:
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http://cciss.sourceforge.net/#cciss_utils
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Device Naming:
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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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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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CCISS simple mode support
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The "cciss_simple_mode=1" boot parameter may be used to prevent the driver
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from putting the controller into "performant" mode. The difference is that
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with simple mode, each command completion requires an interrupt, while with
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"performant mode" (the default, and ordinarily better performing) it is
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possible to have multiple command completions indicated by a single
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interrupt.
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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 engage the SCSI core at init
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time if any tape drives or medium changers are detected. The driver may
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also be directed to dynamically engage the SCSI core via the /proc filesystem
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entry which the "block" side of the driver creates as
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/proc/driver/cciss/cciss* at runtime. This is best done via a script.
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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. This may be done via the /proc filesystem.
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For example:
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echo "rescan" > /proc/scsi/cciss0/1
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This causes the driver 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. It then notifies the SCSI mid layer
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of these changes.
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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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SCSI error handling for tape drives and medium changers
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The linux SCSI mid layer provides an error handling protocol which
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kicks into gear whenever a SCSI command fails to complete within a
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certain amount of time (which can vary depending on the command).
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The cciss driver participates in this protocol to some extent. The
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normal protocol is a four step process. First the device is told
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to abort the command. If that doesn't work, the device is reset.
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If that doesn't work, the SCSI bus is reset. If that doesn't work
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the host bus adapter is reset. Because the cciss driver is a block
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driver as well as a SCSI driver and only the tape drives and medium
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changers are presented to the SCSI mid layer, and unlike more
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straightforward SCSI drivers, disk i/o continues through the block
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side during the SCSI error recovery process, the cciss driver only
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implements the first two of these actions, aborting the command, and
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resetting the device. Additionally, most tape drives will not oblige
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in aborting commands, and sometimes it appears they will not even
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obey a reset command, though in most circumstances they will. In
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the case that the command cannot be aborted and the device cannot be
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reset, the device will be set offline.
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In the event the error handling code is triggered and a tape drive is
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successfully reset or the tardy command is successfully aborted, the
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tape drive may still not allow i/o to continue until some command
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is issued which positions the tape to a known position. Typically you
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must rewind the tape (by issuing "mt -f /dev/st0 rewind" for example)
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before i/o can proceed again to a tape drive which was reset.
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There is a cciss_tape_cmds module parameter which can be used to make cciss
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allocate more commands for use by tape drives. Ordinarily only a few commands
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(6) are allocated for tape drives because tape drives are slow and
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infrequently used and the primary purpose of Smart Array controllers is to
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act as a RAID controller for disk drives, so the vast majority of commands
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are allocated for disk devices. However, if you have more than a few tape
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drives attached to a smart array, the default number of commands may not be
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enought (for example, if you have 8 tape drives, you could only rewind 6
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at one time with the default number of commands.) The cciss_tape_cmds module
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parameter allows more commands (up to 16 more) to be allocated for use by
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tape drives. For example:
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insmod cciss.ko cciss_tape_cmds=16
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Or, as a kernel boot parameter passed in via grub: cciss.cciss_tape_cmds=8
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