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: ...@@ -22,14 +22,21 @@ This driver is known to work with the following cards:
* SA E200i * SA E200i
* SA E500 * 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 To get the status of logical volumes and to detect physical drive
# ./MAKEDEV cciss failures, you can use the cciss_vol_status program found here:
http://cciss.sourceforge.net/#cciss_utils
Device Naming: 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 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:
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