Commit 6c080f1a authored by Stephen M. Cameron's avatar Stephen M. Cameron Committed by Linus Torvalds

Documentation: cciss: detecting failed drives

Document how to detect drive failures for cciss
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d3ed7824
......@@ -22,14 +22,21 @@ This driver is known to work with the following cards:
* SA E200i
* SA E500
If nodes are not already created in the /dev/cciss directory, run as root:
Detecting drive failures:
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# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV cciss
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:
# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV cciss
You need some entries in /dev for the cciss device. The MAKEDEV script
can make device nodes for you automatically. Currently the device setup
is as follows:
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