Hp Cciss Drivers

Cciss is a block driver for older HP Smart Array RAID controllers. Options cciss_allow_hpsa=1: This option prevents the cciss driver from attempting to drive any controllers that the hpsa(4) driver is capable of controlling, which is to say, the cciss driver is restricted by this option to the following controllers: Smart Array 5300. Jul 9, 2014 - Hello, i have her a couple of server (HP DL380 G5) with an SmartArray P400 Raid-controller. This controller is not supported(by RH) anymore by the current hpsa-driver which is be the replacment vor the older cciss-driver in rh7, centos 6.5 works fine. So the question is, is it possible to bring the cciss-driver. Products & ServicesKnowledgebaseAn Introduction to HP Smart Array CCISS/HPSA drivers. An Introduction to HP Smart Array CCISS/HPSA drivers. Solution Unverified - Updated February 5 2015 at 7:55 PM. No translations currently exist. What is CCISS/HPSA drivers? What is the diffrence between them. Ui View Keygen Mac.

I've finally started to test the newer versions of RedHat 6.x and Scientific Linux on HP ProLiant hardware. My previous installs were in virtual hardware, so I didn't notice the raid controller driver change. The first thing I realized on a physical installation was that the drive array devices are now SCSI /dev/sdX names versus the longtime /dev/cciss/cXdX block devices. Apparently, this is due to a new device driver, hpsa instead of cciss. Install Ipx Protocol Windows 7 X64 Activator.

Can anyone shed some light on the differences between the drivers? What's gained? Is there any performance impact? Is there any overlap in terms of the card supported? Has there been a similar change on the Windows side? HP has a good write-up of what the differences are here: (PDF) High points: • Puts devices in the standard /dev namespace, which you already noticed.

• Modernized interaction with the SCSI layer in newer kernels. • hpsa is a SCSI driver, cciss is a block-driver. • This will change device numbering, if that matters.

• This is why the /dev namespace changes • The /sys controls for the driver will change. • Older cards (before the P400-era cards) still require CCISS • It may be the case that cciss and hpsa will both load if cards requiring them are present. The Windows side is untouched.

Devanagari Unicode Keyboard. Table of Contents • • • • • • • HP/Compaq SmartArray series 1. Vendor information Theses HP/Compaq cards are usually well supported on Linux. Proliant servers usually (always?) have this kind of controllers. HP supports Linux and provide an opensource kernel driver which has been part of Linux for ages. Linux kernel drivers There is only one drivers to handle all cards: Driver Supported cards cciss All SmartArray You should not expect any problems with theses drivers which are known to be mature and stable.