Cciss vol status unknown scsi device driver

The trailing, may be omitted in which case a lun of zero is assumed. Scsi status 0x18 as a matter of fact, the raid is in a running system and os is on it. When you create an lvm logical volume that uses activepassive multipath. I seem to remember that used to be in there at one time as well. The host adapter driver schedules the command on the scsi bus that it manages, and returns to the caller. System fails to boot due to unavailability of cciss driver in the initrd file for kernel2. Arrayprobe which may need modifications to work with the hpsa driver. This splitbrained design of the cciss driver is a source of excess complexity and eliminating that complexity is. One scsi device must not use the same id number as another, but they may be numbered nonsequentially. Automationdrive interface type for which there is no class driver.

The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message dll files to display messages from a remote computer. The hpsa driver is an opensource linux device driver for hp smart array controllers. Scsi 2 was approved in 1990, added new features such as fast and wide scsi, and support for additional devices. Any scsi device on a scsi bus is capable of instigating a reset. I have few doubts with smartmontools, can someone clarify. Fix the scsi reset error handler to send a working, properly addressed reset message to the target device and add code to wait for the target device to become ready. The hpsa driver is available in the kernels, and in rhel6 by default, and in sles11 but not by. This has had an impact on the recommended storage subsystem settings over time. Actually cciss is both a block driver for logical drives and a scsi driver for tape drives. Please take my previous comment about how to ask good questions seriously. This allows newer hardware to work with older drivers. Scsi status 0x18 hewlett packard enterprise community. Determining the status of a device windows drivers. The devnode status flags describe the status of the device.

Shows the status of logical drives configured on hp smartarray controllers. I suggest attaching the drive to a sata controller, and booting grml, then trying the securityeraseunit using hdparm from grml. This splitbrained design of the cciss driver is a source of excess complexity and eliminating that complexity is one of the reasons for hpsa to exist. There may be other software designed to work with cciss e. Disk in device manager shows as scsi instead of sata device i added a via pci to sata card to get an extra sata port on my old motherboard. This splitbrained design of the cciss driver is a source of excess. The hpsa driver now has support for all boards the cciss driver used to support, so this patch removes the cciss driver and make hpsa an alias to cciss. 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. Created attachment 998525 10 minute journal snippet fedora 21 server on an hp proliant dl380 g5 with a p400 sas controller using the cciss kernel driver is spamming the journal every 5 seconds with reinstated. Raid controller is accessed via the scsi generic driver, and the device nodes. 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 driver is restricted by this option to the following controllers.

Unlike its predecessor, the cciss driver, the hpsa driver presents logical disk devices in the standard scsi namespace. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. Diskraid monitoring for hp proliant servers and ubuntu 12. In the example below red is a virtual disk on an internal raid controller, green is a cdrom connected via an ide controller, and the rest are sanconnected scsi disks where hostn refers to the instance of the host bus adapter they are connected to. I pushed all three of the drives in, did several restarts, but still fdisk l and parted l do not see them. Scsa is the ddidki programming interface for the transmission of scsi commands from a target driver to a host adapter driver. In the device manager window that appears, expand scsi and raid controllers, rightclick adaptec aic7870 pci scsi controller, and then click update driver. You need to convert the virtual machine and its disks.

Furthermore, unlike more straightforward scsi drivers, disk io continues through the block side during the scsi errorrecovery process. This prevents smartctl from issuing ata commands to a scsi device. Yesterday we had a server crash and browsing thru the logs made the following picture. Cant install other version than this, because the machine is in a csv environment. If a device has an unrecognized board id, normally the. You need to query all controllers if you have more than one but query the first logical drive only is fine otherwise you will have duplicated lines. Device manager displays a list of all devices that are installed on a windows xpbased computer. With the newer driver, you wont see the cciss block driver. Solved hp dl380 g5 neither cciss nor hpsa modules will. On a request to add or update a scsi robotic library or drive, media manager cannot obtain the devices serial number and inquiry string. Take a move immediately if you would like to get away with only a couple of vexatious reminiscences and all the important files and the system itself safeguarded. Then after i loaded the drivers which were only raid, i dont have raid, and i noticed the sata hard drive now shows wdc500xxxxxxxx scsi disk device under disk drives but only one of the drives. This obsolete driver was removed from the kernel in version 4. From there, you can use some common hpacucli commands to obtain raid status.

If an ioaccel volume status changed, initially because it was reconfigured and thus underwent a transformation, or. To display the entire device tree, starting with the root, use. Hp lto ultrium tape drives technical reference, volume 5. The disk format used by vmware server might be incompatible with the esx one. Nov, 2018 a device that is connected to the scsi interface. If you are prompted to search for a driver from the microsoft windows update web site, click no, not this time, and then click next. This is one of five volumes that document hp lto ultrium 5 tape drives fibre channel and sas. Hp storage works ultrium 1760 sas sas controller hp smart controller p212 and i installed the following driver from hp. I configured the system using all lsi logic sas and did not recieve this error, so i believe it has something to do with the parvirtual driver. Each device on the chain, including the host, must be identified by a unique id number. There are three 72gb scsi drives sitting in the server unseated and i want to do a raid 5 with them.

The output of ls l sysblock device should give you an idea about how each device is connected to the system. It may be difficult to determine the cause of this unknown device, because there are few indications of what generates it. The cciss driver is a block driver as well as a scsi driver and only the tape drives and medium changers are presented to the scsi midlayer furthermore, unlike more straightforward scsi drivers, disk io continues through the block side during the scsi errorrecovery process therefore, the cciss driver implements only the first two of these actions, aborting the command, and resetting the device. You will probably have to adjust your nagios setup to only look at disk drives. Disk in device manager shows as scsi instead of sata device. These are used extensively by the hp array configuration utility, snmp storage agents, and so on. A scsi inquiry sent to the device has failed explanation. However, its been awhile since ive seen any clear recommendations. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. Im also sending you a paper i wrote on hard drive testing offlist.

This driver doesnt provide any information into proc scsi scsi, on which the script is. Description shows the status of logical drives configured on hp smartarray con trollers. You have to manually upgrade the drivers for a scsi. Only sequential access devices and medium changers are pre. Note that this does not yet support the smart status command. How to rescan scsi disk linux and p400 controller dear jimmy, thanks for your answer, but it seems that this script doesnt work with cciss device driver. Specifically, physical scsi disk drives are not presented to the scsi midlayer. Progpath is wrong on some systems, the execute test does not look at the correct owner since sudo is used, and a failed batterycapacity can result in the cache permanently disabled.

How to troubleshoot unknown devices that are listed in. Note also that most tape drives will not oblige in aborting commands, and sometimes it appears. Use the free vmware converter standalone as your target is an esxi server. I decided today that i needed more space for images. Reservation conflict is probably a conflict with another scsi device, perhaps the scsi id. The hpsa driver is a scsi driver, while the cciss driver is a block driver. How to add another raid to p400i controller on fedora. As rhel versions have progressed, ive also noticed that the compiledin defaults for scsi and cciss block devices have changed as well. For disks accessed via the cciss driver the device nodes are of the form. If you would like to run hpsa instead, there is a new module parameter to cciss, cciss. The only disk devices that are presented to the kernel are logical drives that the array controller constructs from regions on the physical drives. Configuring or unconfiguring a scsi controller use one of the following commands depending on the operation you want to perform.

By conforming to the scsa, the target driver can easily pass any combination of scsi commands and sequences to a target device. Linux realworld hardware raid controller tuning scsi and. Device name changes are the most visible difference between the cciss and hpsa drivers. Specifically, physical scsi disk drives are not presented to the scsi mid layer. Contribute to torvaldslinux development by creating an account on github. Cciss not recognizing new scsi drives hp proliant server. How can i monitor the status of the hard disks and the raids of an hp proliant server using ubuntu 12. From initrd file one can see that driver required for scsi device is not available in newer initrd file. System with cciss storage controller fails to boot after. Hi, i have problems with smartmontools and follow system.

Status microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the microsoft products that are listed in the applies to section. The server is a ml370 g5 with 2 p400 smar array controller. Cciss drivers for the raid hardware, the volume shows up as. For the hpsa driver, or for fibre attached msa family devices, or for the hpahcisr sotware raid driver which emulates smart arrays, the raid controller is accessed via the scsi generic driver, and the device nodes will match devsg some variants of the lsscsi tool will easily identify which device node corresponds to the raid controller. The actual controllers are built into each scsi device. Red hat and suse include the hpsa driver as part of their standard enterprise linux distributions. Only sequential access devices and medium changers are presented as scsi devices to the scsi midlayer by the cciss driver. Some examples of scsi devices are hard drives, cdrom drives, tape drives, and scanners. That is, there are some kernels which have overlapping. Configuring or unconfiguring a scsi controller managing. I have a tape drive that was working with sles 11 sp1 perfectly, but the problem came after a fresh installation of sles 11 sp2 sap version. Nov 22, 2010 when you view scsi and raid controllers in windows 2000 device manager, the miniport driver will be listed as storage miniport driver not supported.

This lower level device name cannot often be used directly since windows blocks attempts to use it if a class driver has claimed the device. For the cciss driver, the d0 nodes matching dev cciss cd0 are the nodes which correspond to the raid controllers. You must enable scsi tape drive support for smart array 5xxx and scsi sup. Utilities for the cciss driver also work with this driver, though they should be directed to use the devsgx generic scsi devices rather than the cciss devices as all the hp specific ioctl interfaces are identical. Note, that it indicates which raid controller, not which logical drive.

Drop the hi and thanks, make sure the first few lines or the question introduce the question instead of being meta data so that the home page summaries are useful, and always show what attempts you have made to solve problems yourself. Ive had to make a bunch of hacks to this to keep it running over time. They chain scsi peripherals to the scsi bus via the host adapter. If the only machine where you can use a sata controller instead of usb sata is a mac, then ive never tried booting grml on a mac, but i assume it will work. When i check the vmkernel and vmkwarning, i see the lots of scsi status io errors see below tail f of vmkernel. 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. The driver detected a controller error on \\device. Configuring device mapper multipath red hat enterprise linux 8. Error message when you add a scsi controller to a windows. Unknown you may need to install the appropriate drivers. The cciss driver is a block driver as well as a scsi driver and only the tape drives and medium changers are presented to the scsi midlayer furthermore, unlike more straightforward scsi drivers, disk io continues through the block side during the scsi errorrecovery process therefore, the cciss driver implements only the first two of these.

This is one of five volumes that document hp lto ultrium 6 tape drives fibre channel and sas. Media manager is obtains this information by sending a scsi inquiry command to the device. The scsi device functions on its own and only uses the scsi interface to communicate with the rest of the computer. When you view device information in device manager, you may see a device listed as unknown device next to a yellow question mark. This option allows the driver to attempt to operate on any hp smart array hardware raid controller, even if. Scsi status 0x02 is most definitely an evidence of a kernel pc corruption. Monitoring tools list smartmontoolssupport archives.

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