Options p, persnickety without this option, device nodes which cant be opened, or which are not found to be of the correct device type are silent. All documentation on the sa 5300 mentions the dev tree entries as dev cciss cxdxpx, where the xs stand for controller number, logical disk number, and partition number in that order. The logical disks were seen by the linux systems as devccissc0d0 for logical disk 1 and devccissc0d1 for logical disk 2. But smartmontools can read into the raid controller with the d cciss,x devsdy. The hpsa driver evolved from the hp smart array cciss driver. Freeipmi provides tools and libraries for users to access and read ipmi sensor readings, system event log sel entries, serialoverlan sol, remote power control functions, field replaceable unit fru device information, and more. The drives worked fine a week ago in a windows environment. Is there any way i can figure out the model number of the physical drives. For example, a configuration that has an embedded smart array controller and another smart array controller is added to an option pci slot, such that dev cciss c0d0 and dev cciss c1d0 exists. It looks like devccisscd is missing both 0s probably some bad shell substitution in one of the scripts and so it fails. Linux guidemonitoring wikibooks, open books for an open.
It looks like dev cciss cd is missing both 0s probably some bad shell substitution in one of the scripts and so it fails. In your case its behind a cciss controller, so the option should be d cciss,0 or. Novell suse linux enterprise desktop 10 service pack 1 novell suse linux enterprise desktop 10 service pack 2 novell suse linux enterprise server 10. This option will cause the program to complain about any device node listed which does not appear to be the right. Clonezilla disk to remote disk error data backup spiceworks. Make sure that you have a current backup of all data that is stored on the server. Cciss not recognizing new scsi drives hp proliant server. This driver is for compaqs smart array controllers. The logical disks were seen by the linux systems as dev cciss c0d0 for logical disk 1 and dev cciss c0d1 for logical disk 2. How to multiboot linux distros from different drive on. The cciss driver participates in this protocol to some extent. There is dev sda,1,2, but they correspond to the installation media. In that specific situation, youll need a tool that knows how to talk to the raid controller and get the information on.
Bug 402151 grubinstall cant install to mbr on cciss devices. Find answers to how to add new partition in red hat 5. Ive got a hp dl380 running and i know one of the drives has failed. Al least one activated online spare drive is completely rebuilt on this logical drive. I am expecting device names of dev cciss c0d0 but see dev sda instead, is this a problem. This works if hd0 is mapped to the correct cciss device in bootgrubdevice. With the software raid in linux you can pull the drives from one system, put them in another linux system and still be able to. Linux guidemonitoring wikibooks, open books for an open world.
Smartctl is a tool not supported by hp to read the smart selfmonitoring, analysis and reporting technology settings and counters of a hard disk. The problem is, when i loaded the cciss module, this structure was a bit different. How to manually install grub after a failed installation or disk corruption of the mbr. What raid cards does clonezilla support linux forum.
Articles and discussions should be directly related to linux operating systems. Dl380 g7 server, rhel6u2, seeing dev sda instead of dev cciss c0d0, why. 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. Missing smart array cciss device links within devdiskbypath solution verified updated 20221t15. Partition scheme for dm multipath devices oracle community. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024. 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. How to use smartctl with cciss hewlett packard enterprise. I have booted arch linux installation cd, but i cant seem to access the hard drives visibly, there are 6. On a system with devcciss devices specifically an hp proliant dl380 using the grub0. This option prevents the cciss driver from attempting to. Create hardware raid on hp via hpacucli tinnedsoftware blog. When you will try to install the linux os over such raid configured from bios level, your os will detect them as devccissc0d0 disks instead of regular dev hda.
I have some questions about partition scheme for device mapper multipath devices. This obsolete driver was removed from the kernel in version 4. I can easily accesstest cciss,0 and cciss,1 first 2 drives in array. I tried to set the root partition from the grub rescue prompt with set roothda0,2 but it was not persistent through a reboot. I have had a drive failure hdd lights up amber, so i pulled the hdd, replaced it and the raid controller rebuilt the array in a jiffy no probs. Freeipmi provides inband and outofband ipmi software based on the ipmi v1. Missing smart array cciss device links within devdiskby. I am expecting device names of devccissc0d0 but see devsda instead, is this a problem. How to see disk details like manufacturer in linux unix. Makedev cciss 44 45 you need some entries in dev for the cciss device. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Running cciss,0 on sdb, sdc, sdd or sde gives the same results.
This new driver will support new smart array products going forward, and the cciss driver will eventually be deprecated. The smartmontools package contains two utility programs smartctl and smartd to control and monitor storage systems using the. Raid 0 joins two or more drives to maximize capacity and performance at the expense of faulttolerance. The smartmontools package contains two utility programs smartctl and smartd to control and monitor storage systems using the selfmonitoring, analysis and reporting technology. Doubts on linux partition solutions experts exchange. Hp proliant gnulinux cant find raid drives server fault. Makedev cciss you need some entries in dev for the cciss device. Understanding partitions in linux ubuntu cciss daniweb. Actually, these are raid device configured from the bios or smartstart cd before installing the os. Hello, what you are seeing here are two partitions both on the first controller and the first disk. Shows the status of logical drives configured on hp smartarray controllers. Gentoo forums view topic block device devccissc0d0p3.
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 linux 2. Linux server this forum is for the discussion of linux software used in a server related context. On the other hand, if its linux software raid, no, clonezilla does not support that. Dear, need to make virtualization a redhat linux 8.
Log in to your red hat account red hat customer portal. The gpt stands for guid partition table and is the type of partition table to be created on the disk. In that specific situation, youll need a tool that knows how to talk to the raid controller and get the information on actual physical drives from it. These are kind of virtual disks dev cciss c0d0 and are not regular hard disks unlike dev hda or dev sda. Bug 457374 smartctl d cciss doesnt work with external array. For example, a configuration that has an embedded smart array controller and another smart array controller is added to an option pci slot, such that devccissc0d0 and devccissc1d0 exists. The name dev cciss c0d0 indicates the ops system uses a hp smartarray hardware raid controller, and so any disk shown by it is actually a raid set, which may or may not correspond directly to any single physical disk. This article will cover the basic process used to install gentoo linux onto a csl 64bit server system using lvm for disk space management and 802. Cciss4 linux programmers manual cciss4 name top cciss hp smart array block driver. Is there reason for concern about the seemingly high number of total errors corrected for the following drive cciss,6 dev cciss c0d0, one of a 4 disk array. Most likely, you do not need these, as the cciss driver has been in the linux. Device names can change if, after installation, another smart array controller is added and depending on where it is inserted in the bus. Why did device naming change in rhel6 for smart array cciss devices.
Create hardware raid on hp via hpacucli experiencing technology. Fedora 11 changed to endoflife eol status on 20100625. If you were using different vendors ibm, dell, hp you needed to keep one template for hp and another for all the rest. 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. You can use a for loop to scan for disks, for example. The metadisk driver is used to span a filesystem across multiple physical disks. Is there reason for concern about the seemingly high number of total errors corrected for the following drive cciss,6 devccissc0d0, one of a 4 disk array. The name devccissc0d0 indicates the ops system uses a hp smartarray hardware raid controller, and so any disk shown by it is actually a raid set, which may or may not correspond directly to any single physical disk. It is not obvious how to come up with the physical disk specifier that smartctl wants for a given physical disk. With this new adapter the devices are now recognized as devsda and not devccissc0d0. Here are some examples of how i do this on debian systems. If you want you can use e2label to label them but it really doesnt make a lot a difference.
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