This option allows the driver to attempt to operate on any hp smart array hardware raid controller, even if it is not explicitly known to the driver. If you really want cciss on rhel7 checkout the elrepo directory a new smart array driver called hpsa has been accepted into the main line linux kernel as of dec 18, 2009, in linux2. To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers. Are cciss controllers supported in red hat enterprise linux 7. This splitbrained design of the cciss driver is a source of excess. This module option allows the use of pci ids that are not listed in the drivers pci id table recognition of smart array cards that are not tested. If you really want cciss on rhel7 checkout the elrepo directory. However the hp provided tool hpacucli fails to find any controllers. On sles 11 sp3 this has changed and the cciss driver is the only one that handles this type of controllers per default. Actually cciss is both a block driver for logical drives and a scsi driver for tape drives.
These drivers were formerly called hpsa hp smart array and then before that cciss compaq computers inc smart storage. This new driver will support new smart array products going forward, and the cciss driver will eventually be deprecated. Diskraid monitoring for hp proliant servers and ubuntu 12. This option prevents the cciss driver from attempting to drive any controllers that the hpsa4 driver is capable of controlling, which is to say, the cciss. This obsolete driver was removed from the kernel in version 4. My guess is the drivers included in 16 vs 18 are different and the 16 drivers are too old for the firmware you have in that machine. These older boards have not been tested and are not supported with hpsa, and cciss4 should still be used for these. This option prevents the cciss driver from attempting to drive any controllers that the hpsa4 driver is capable of controlling, which is. But avoid asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. This does exactly the same thing as writing to the hpsaspecific host rescan attribute. E208 and p408 and p816 use the smartpqi drivers from microsemi used to be pmc sierra. The cciss driver has been removed from rhel7 and sles12. Unlike the cciss driver, the hpsa driver presents logical disk devices in the standard scsi namespace. How can i monitor the status of the hard disks and the raids of an hp proliant server using ubuntu 12.
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