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

Documentation/cciss.txt

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	* 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: