Bug 699380 - Investigate difference between hpsa and cciss drivers
Summary: Investigate difference between hpsa and cciss drivers
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ovirt-node
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Mike Burns
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Depends On: 691891
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-25 13:12 UTC by Mike Burns
Modified: 2016-04-26 16:43 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 691891
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-10-25 18:06:43 UTC
Target Upstream Version:


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Description Mike Burns 2011-04-25 13:12:48 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #691891 +++

Description of problem:
See original bug 691891 for additional details, but below is what we need to handle here.

--- Additional comment from apevec on 2011-04-18 06:00:04 EDT ---

There's now hpsa driver which shows at least some cciss controllers as normal scsi devices - cciss in ML150 G6 is 103c:323a (rev 01)

This might be confusing for users, to know when it's cciss bus and when scsi,
We'll need to talk to kernel storage to see what's the plan with separate cciss driver, both hpsa and cciss are present in 6.1:

# modinfo hpsa 
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.32-131.0.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/hpsa.ko
license:        GPL
version:        2.0.2-3
description:    Driver for HP Smart Array Controller version 2.0.2-3
author:         Hewlett-Packard Company
srcversion:     7EC69F284931C227989DD2E
alias:          pci:v00000E11d*sv*sd*bc01sc04i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd*sv*sd*bc01sc04i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Bsv0000103Csd00003356bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Bsv0000103Csd00003355bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Bsv0000103Csd00003354bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Bsv0000103Csd00003353bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Bsv0000103Csd00003352bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Bsv0000103Csd00003351bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Bsv0000103Csd00003350bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Asv0000103Csd00003233bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Asv0000103Csd0000324Bbc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Asv0000103Csd0000324Abc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Asv0000103Csd00003249bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Asv0000103Csd00003247bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Asv0000103Csd00003245bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Asv0000103Csd00003243bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd0000323Asv0000103Csd00003241bc*sc*i*
depends:        
vermagic:       2.6.32-131.0.1.el6.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions 
parm:           hpsa_allow_any:Allow hpsa driver to access unknown HP Smart Array hardware (int)
parm:           hpsa_simple_mode:Use 'simple mode' rather than 'performant mode' (int)

# modinfo cciss
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.32-131.0.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/block/cciss.ko
license:        GPL
version:        3.6.28
description:    Driver for HP Smart Array Controllers
author:         Hewlett-Packard Company
srcversion:     2FD0F32234F7AB5CD96D40B
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003230sv0000103Csd0000323Dbc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003230sv0000103Csd00003237bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003238sv0000103Csd00003215bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003238sv0000103Csd00003214bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003238sv0000103Csd00003213bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003238sv0000103Csd00003212bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003238sv0000103Csd00003211bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003230sv0000103Csd00003235bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003230sv0000103Csd00003234bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003230sv0000103Csd00003223bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v0000103Cd00003220sv0000103Csd00003225bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d00000046sv00000E11sd0000409Dbc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d00000046sv00000E11sd0000409Cbc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d00000046sv00000E11sd0000409Bbc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d00000046sv00000E11sd0000409Abc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d00000046sv00000E11sd00004091bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d0000B178sv00000E11sd00004083bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d0000B178sv00000E11sd00004082bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d0000B178sv00000E11sd00004080bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00000E11d0000B060sv00000E11sd00004070bc*sc*i*
depends:        
vermagic:       2.6.32-131.0.1.el6.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
parm:           cciss_tape_cmds:number of commands to allocate for tape devices (default: 6) (int)

Comment 1 Mike Burns 2011-10-25 18:06:43 UTC
hpsa devices show up as /dev/sdX, cciss devices are /dev/cciss/c0d0


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