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NAME

6       hpsa - HP Smart Array SCSI driver
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SYNOPSIS

9       modprobe hpsa [ hpsa_allow_any=1 ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       hpsa is a SCSI driver for HP Smart Array RAID controllers.
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14   Options
15       hpsa_allow_any=1:  This  option allows the driver to attempt to operate
16       on any HP Smart Array hardware RAID  controller,  even  if  it  is  not
17       explicitly  known  to  the  driver.  This allows newer hardware to work
18       with older drivers.  Typically this is used to  allow  installation  of
19       operating  systems from media that predates the RAID controller, though
20       it may also be used to enable hpsa  to  drive  older  controllers  that
21       would  normally  be handled by the cciss(4) driver.  These older boards
22       have not been tested and are not  supported  with  hpsa,  and  cciss(4)
23       should still be used for these.
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25   Supported hardware
26       The hpsa driver supports the following Smart Array boards:
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28           Smart Array P700M
29           Smart Array P212
30           Smart Array P410
31           Smart Array P410i
32           Smart Array P411
33           Smart Array P812
34           Smart Array P712m
35           Smart Array P711m
36           StorageWorks P1210m
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38       Since Linux 4.14, the following Smart Array boards are also supported:
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40           Smart Array 5300
41           Smart Array 5312
42           Smart Array 532
43           Smart Array 5i
44           Smart Array 6400
45           Smart Array 6400 EM
46           Smart Array 641
47           Smart Array 642
48           Smart Array 6i
49           Smart Array E200
50           Smart Array E200i
51           Smart Array E200i
52           Smart Array E200i
53           Smart Array E200i
54           Smart Array E500
55           Smart Array P400
56           Smart Array P400i
57           Smart Array P600
58           Smart Array P700m
59           Smart Array P800
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61   Configuration details
62       To configure HP Smart Array controllers, use the HP Array Configuration
63       Utility (either hpacuxe(8) or hpacucli(8))  or  the  Offline  ROM-based
64       Configuration  Utility  (ORCA) run from the Smart Array's option ROM at
65       boot time.
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68   Device nodes
69       Logical drives are accessed via the  SCSI  disk  driver  (sd(4)),  tape
70       drives  via  the  SCSI tape driver (st(4)), and the RAID controller via
71       the SCSI generic driver (sg(4)),  with  device  nodes  named  /dev/sd*,
72       /dev/st*, and /dev/sg*, respectively.
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74   HPSA-specific host attribute files in /sys
75       /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/rescan
76              This  is a write-only attribute.  Writing to this attribute will
77              cause the driver to scan for new, changed,  or  removed  devices
78              (e.g.,  hot-plugged  tape drives, or newly configured or deleted
79              logical drives, etc.)  and  notify  the  SCSI  midlayer  of  any
80              changes  detected.  Normally a rescan is triggered automatically
81              by HP's Array Configuration Utility (either the GUI or the  com‐
82              mand-line  variety);  thus,  for logical drive changes, the user
83              should not normally have to use this attribute.  This  attribute
84              may  be  useful  when  hot plugging devices like tape drives, or
85              entire storage boxes containing preconfigured logical drives.
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87       /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/firmware_revision
88              This attribute contains the firmware version of the Smart Array.
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92                  # cd /sys/class/scsi_host/host4
93                  # cat firmware_revision
94                  7.14
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96   HPSA-specific disk attribute files in /sys
97       /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/unique_id
98              This attribute contains a 32 hex-digit unique ID for each  logi‐
99              cal drive.
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103                  # cd /sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device
104                  # cat unique_id
105                  600508B1001044395355323037570F77
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107       /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/raid_level
108              This attribute contains the RAID level of each logical drive.
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112                  # cd /sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device
113                  # cat raid_level
114                  RAID 0
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116       /sys/class/scsi_disk/c:b:t:l/device/lunid
117              This  attribute  contains  the  16  hex-digit (8 byte) LUN ID by
118              which a logical drive  or  physical  device  can  be  addressed.
119              c:b:t:l are the controller, bus, target, and lun of the device.
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123                  # cd /sys/class/scsi_disk/4:0:0:0/device
124                  # cat lunid
125                  0x0000004000000000
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127   Supported ioctl() operations
128       For  compatibility  with  applications written for the cciss(4) driver,
129       many, but not all of the ioctls supported by the  cciss(4)  driver  are
130       also  supported  by the hpsa driver.  The data structures used by these
131       ioctls   are   described   in   the   Linux    kernel    source    file
132       include/linux/cciss_ioctl.h.
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134       CCISS_DEREGDISK, CCISS_REGNEWDISK, CCISS_REGNEWD
135              These  three  ioctls  all do exactly the same thing, which is to
136              cause the driver to rescan for new devices.  This  does  exactly
137              the  same  thing  as  writing to the hpsa-specific host "rescan"
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140       CCISS_GETPCIINFO
141              Returns PCI domain, bus, device and function and "board ID" (PCI
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144       CCISS_GETDRIVVER
145              Returns driver version in three bytes encoded as:
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147                  (major_version << 16) | (minor_version << 8) |
148                      (subminor_version)
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150       CCISS_PASSTHRU, CCISS_BIG_PASSTHRU
151              Allows  "BMIC"  and  "CISS" commands to be passed through to the
152              Smart Array.  These are used extensively by the HP Array Config‐
153              uration   Utility,   SNMP   storage  agents,  and  so  on.   See
154              cciss_vol_status at ⟨http://cciss.sf.net⟩ for some examples.
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