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hpsa(4)                 Kernel Interfaces Manual                 hpsa(4)

NAME         top

       hpsa - HP Smart Array SCSI driver

SYNOPSIS         top

       modprobe hpsa [ hpsa_allow_any=1 ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       hpsa is a SCSI driver for HP Smart Array RAID controllers.

   Options
       hpsa_allow_any=1: 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.  This allows newer
       hardware to work with older drivers.  Typically this is used to
       allow installation of operating systems from media that predates
       the RAID controller, though it may also be used to enable hpsa to
       drive older controllers that would normally be handled by the
       cciss(4) driver.  These older boards have not been tested and are
       not supported with hpsa, and cciss(4) should still be used for
       these.

   Supported hardware
       The hpsa driver supports the following Smart Array boards:

           Smart Array P700M
           Smart Array P212
           Smart Array P410
           Smart Array P410i
           Smart Array P411
           Smart Array P812
           Smart Array P712m
           Smart Array P711m
           StorageWorks P1210m

       Since Linux 4.14, the following Smart Array boards are also
       supported:

           Smart Array 5300
           Smart Array 5312
           Smart Array 532
           Smart Array 5i
           Smart Array 6400
           Smart Array 6400 EM
           Smart Array 641
           Smart Array 642
           Smart Array 6i
           Smart Array E200
           Smart Array E200i
           Smart Array E200i
           Smart Array E200i
           Smart Array E200i
           Smart Array E500
           Smart Array P400
           Smart Array P400i
           Smart Array P600
           Smart Array P700m
           Smart Array P800

   Configuration details
       To configure HP Smart Array controllers, use the HP Array
       Configuration Utility (either hpacuxe(8) or hpacucli(8)) or the
       Offline ROM-based Configuration Utility (ORCA) run from the Smart
       Array's option ROM at boot time.

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   Device nodes
       Logical drives are accessed via the SCSI disk driver (sd(4)),
       tape drives via the SCSI tape driver (st(4)), and the RAID
       controller via the SCSI generic driver (sg(4)), with device nodes
       named /dev/sd*, /dev/st*, and /dev/sg*, respectively.

   HPSA-specific host attribute files in /sys
       /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/rescan
              This is a write-only attribute.  Writing to this attribute
              will cause the driver to scan for new, changed, or removed
              devices (e.g., hot-plugged tape drives, or newly
              configured or deleted logical drives, etc.)  and notify
              the SCSI midlayer of any changes detected.  Normally a
              rescan is triggered automatically by HP's Array
              Configuration Utility (either the GUI or the command-line
              variety); thus, for logical drive changes, the user should
              not normally have to use this attribute.  This attribute
              may be useful when hot plugging devices like tape drives,
              or entire storage boxes containing preconfigured logical
              drives.

       /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/firmware_revision
              This attribute contains the firmware version of the Smart
              Array.

              For example:

                  # cd /sys/class/scsi_host/host4
                  # cat firmware_revision
                  7.14

   HPSA-specific disk attribute files in /sys
       /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/unique_id
              This attribute contains a 32 hex-digit unique ID for each
              logical drive.

              For example:

                  # cd /sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device
                  # cat unique_id
                  600508B1001044395355323037570F77

       /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/raid_level
              This attribute contains the RAID level of each logical
              drive.

              For example:

                  # cd /sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device
                  # cat raid_level
                  RAID 0

       /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/lunid
              This attribute contains the 16 hex-digit (8 byte) LUN ID
              by which a logical drive or physical device can be
              addressed.  c:b:t:l are the controller, bus, target, and
              lun of the device.

       For example:

                  # cd /sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device
                  # cat lunid
                  0x0000004000000000

   Supported ioctl() operations
       For compatibility with applications written for the cciss(4)
       driver, many, but not all of the ioctls supported by the cciss(4)
       driver are also supported by the hpsa driver.  The data
       structures used by these ioctls are described in the Linux kernel
       source file include/linux/cciss_ioctl.h.

       CCISS_DEREGDISK, CCISS_REGNEWDISK, CCISS_REGNEWD
              These three ioctls all do exactly the same thing, which is
              to cause the driver to rescan for new devices.  This does
              exactly the same thing as writing to the hpsa-specific
              host "rescan" attribute.

       CCISS_GETPCIINFO
              Returns PCI domain, bus, device, and function and "board
              ID" (PCI subsystem ID).

       CCISS_GETDRIVVER
              Returns driver version in three bytes encoded as:

                  (major_version << 16) | (minor_version << 8) |
                      (subminor_version)

       CCISS_PASSTHRU, CCISS_BIG_PASSTHRU
              Allows "BMIC" and "CISS" commands to be passed through to
              the Smart Array.  These are used extensively by the HP
              Array Configuration Utility, SNMP storage agents, and so
              on.  See cciss_vol_status at ⟨http://cciss.sf.net⟩ for
              some examples.

SEE ALSO         top

       cciss(4), sd(4), st(4), cciss_vol_status(8), hpacucli(8),
       hpacuxe(8)

       ⟨http://cciss.sf.net⟩, and Documentation/scsi/hpsa.txt and
       Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss in the
       Linux kernel source tree

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