[sles-beta] cciss driver for HP hardware

[Matthias G. Eckermann]

Hello Tom and all,

On 2014-06-20 T 23:44 -0400 Tom Parker wrote:
 
> I see that the cciss driver for older HP hardware is
> no longer supported.  Does this mean it has been
> removed from the kernel and is no longer available or
> just that SLES will not support systems using this
> driver?

please see the Release Notes, chapter 4.2.2:
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12/#Driver_Updates.Storage
 
Compared to other recent distributions, SLES 12 has
special code in the hpsa driver to support more of the
older controllers, i.e. more than the upstream driver.

> We still have many HP BL460 G5 servers running in QA
> and Development that have many more years of useful
> life in them and all of them use the Hewlett-Packard
> Company Smart Array E200i Controller which is listed
> as not supported

However, unfortunately, the E200i is not among those,
where we can implement this.

I am afraid, this is out of SUSE's control and should be
brought up with the hardware vendor, who also maintains
the upstream driver(s).

so long -
	MgE

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