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| author | Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> | 2007-05-08 00:30:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-08 11:15:10 -0700 |
| commit | 6c080f1a93591500299a514ef63209079ff007ac (patch) | |
| tree | 1a8588ef48ec688d0f061d6fd2529d920aafa3ec | |
| parent | d3ed782458f315c30ea679b919a2cc59f2b82565 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6c080f1a93591500299a514ef63209079ff007ac.tar.gz lwn-6c080f1a93591500299a514ef63209079ff007ac.zip | |
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>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cciss.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cciss.txt b/Documentation/cciss.txt index f74affe5c829..e65736c6b8bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/cciss.txt +++ b/Documentation/cciss.txt @@ -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: +------------------------- -# 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: -------------- +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: |