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. E208 and p408 and p816 use the smartpqi drivers from microsemi used to be pmc sierra. Unlike the cciss driver, the hpsa driver presents logical disk devices in the standard scsi namespace. If you really want cciss on rhel7 checkout the elrepo directory a new smart array driver called hpsa has been accepted into the main line linux kernel as of dec 18, 2009, in linux2. Actually cciss is both a block driver for logical drives and a scsi driver for tape drives. This obsolete driver was removed from the kernel in version 4. This option prevents the cciss driver from attempting to drive any controllers that the hpsa4 driver is capable of controlling, which is. On sles 11 sp3 this has changed and the cciss driver is the only one that handles this type of controllers per default. These older boards have not been tested and are not supported with hpsa, and cciss4 should still be used for these.
Diskraid monitoring for hp proliant servers and ubuntu 12. If you really want cciss on rhel7 checkout the elrepo directory. 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. But avoid asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. These drivers were formerly called hpsa hp smart array and then before that cciss compaq computers inc smart storage. System with hp smart array controller does not boot after update. This does exactly the same thing as writing to the hpsaspecific host rescan attribute. My guess is the drivers included in 16 vs 18 are different and the 16 drivers are too old for the firmware you have in that machine.
This splitbrained design of the cciss driver is a source of excess. Are cciss controllers supported in red hat enterprise linux 7. This new driver will support new smart array products going forward, and the cciss driver will eventually be deprecated. This module option allows the use of pci ids that are not listed in the drivers pci id table recognition of smart array cards that are not tested.
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