What should disk device names be when attached to a HP Smart Array controller on RHEL6?
Issue
- What should the device name for cciss disks be in RHEL 6?
- Missing expected cciss devices in RHEL 6
- When using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 on HP servers, the onboard disks are always named: /dev/cciss/c0d0, /dev/cciss/c0d1, etc. This is always the case - whether we're using blades or rack mounted servers, G5 or G6.
- During a kickstart install of RHEL 6 on a HP G6 blade (BL460c), the internal disks are being named /dev/sda, /dev/sdb; however, using the same kickstart profile on a HP G5 blade, the disks are still being named /dev/cciss/*.
- Is this expected behaviour?
- Why did device naming change in RHEL6 for Smart Array (cciss) devices?
- DL380 G7 server, RHEL6u2, seeing /dev/sda instead of /dev/cciss/c0d0, why?
- I am expecting device names of /dev/cciss/c0d0 but see /dev/sda instead, is this a problem?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- Hewlett-Packard (HP) Smart Array controller
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