Opened 19 months ago
Closed 19 months ago
#1652 closed enhancement (wontfix)
Support for CCISS (HP/Compaq Smart Array Controller) in Windows
| Reported by: | Csaba Kálmán | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | all | Version: | 7.3 |
| Keywords: | cciss windows | Cc: |
Description
Hi!
Do you have any information about if this configuration will be supported in the future?
I have a DL360 Gen8 server, with P420i RAID controller.
The smartctl --scan detects devices like:
/dev/csmi2,0 -d ata # /dev/csmi2,0, ATA device
but I cannot get any more information
Read Device Identity failed: CSMI(25) failed with ReturnCode=2
Attachments (2)
Change History (9)
comment:1 by , 19 months ago
| Component: | all → smartctl |
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| Keywords: | windows added |
comment:2 by , 19 months ago
| Component: | smartctl → all |
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| Keywords: | cciss added |
| Milestone: | → undecided |
by , 19 months ago
| Attachment: | smartctl_scan.txt added |
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by , 19 months ago
| Attachment: | smartctl_i.txt added |
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comment:4 by , 19 months ago
Hi!
Thank you for your support! Attached the outputs of the two command.
comment:5 by , 19 months ago
CSMI seems incomplete or requires different parameters:
CC_CSMI_SAS_GET_DRIVER_INFO: works.
CC_CSMI_SAS_GET_PHY_INFO: works and reports 6 ports connected to a SATA device and 2 ports unconnected. Is this correct?
CC_CSMI_SAS_GET_RAID_INFO: fails.
CC_CSMI_SAS_STP_PASSTHRU: fails.
The latter is required to access SMART data of SATA devices behind the controller. It is even not known if the driver somehow supports such a function as it is not required for regular I/O.
Unfortunately the available CSMI specs (T10/04-284r0, T11.5/04-468v0) do not provide any help as this standardization effort was apparently discontinued after the early incomplete drafts from 2004.
Is there any vendor specific Windows SMART tool for this controller?
Could CrystalDiskInfo access SMART data?
comment:6 by , 19 months ago
Yes, the number of connected ports is 6, and 2 unconnected.
I'm afraid, that we are not lucky with this controller. Even the official tools from HP are not providing all the information I would expect.
There is a Smart Storage Administrator (or the command line ssacli) utility, which cannot provide much more info just that:
Status: OK Exposed To OS: No Drive Configuration Type: Data Associated To Array: Array B - 2 Logical Drive(s) Size: 931.51 GiB (1000.20 GB) Logical / Physical Block Size: 512 / 512 Bytes Drive Type: SATA SSD Model: ATA CT1000BX500SSD1 Serial Number: 2216E6294F64 Firmware Version: M6CR054 Transfer Speed: 6 Gbps SSD Wear Status: Not Supported WWID: 3001438032CAFCC0
Please note, that the Wear status is "Not supported".
That's why I hoped you super tool would help me out :)
Unfortunately, the CrystalDiskInfo (8.17.7) cannot see ANY drive in my system.
comment:7 by , 19 months ago
| Milestone: | undecided |
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| Resolution: | → wontfix |
| Status: | new → closed |
The above results suggest that this driver does not provide pass-through functionality.
Feel free to reopen this ticket if new information is available.
This usually requires a spec or sample sourcecode from the vendor of the Windows driver for the controller. Could you provide this?
This driver apparently advertises CSMI (Common Storage Management Interface) support. Smartmontools for Windows currently implements CSMI for Intel and AMD SATA RAID only. There is no CSMI SAS support.
Please provide the outputs of
as plaintext attachments to this ticket.