Documentation: cciss: detecting failed drives

Document how to detect drive failures for cciss

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stephen M. Cameron
2007-05-08 00:30:05 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d3ed782458
commit 6c080f1a93

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@@ -22,14 +22,21 @@ This driver is known to work with the following cards:
* SA E200i * SA E200i
* SA E500 * SA E500
Detecting drive failures:
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To get the status of logical volumes and to detect physical drive
failures, you can use the cciss_vol_status program found here:
http://cciss.sourceforge.net/#cciss_utils
Device Naming:
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If nodes are not already created in the /dev/cciss directory, run as root: If nodes are not already created in the /dev/cciss directory, run as root:
# cd /dev # cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV cciss # ./MAKEDEV cciss
Device Naming:
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You need some entries in /dev for the cciss device. The MAKEDEV script You need some entries in /dev for the cciss device. The MAKEDEV script
can make device nodes for you automatically. Currently the device setup can make device nodes for you automatically. Currently the device setup
is as follows: is as follows: