From: Stephen M. Cameron Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:05 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Documentation: cciss: detecting failed drives X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc1~651 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c080f1a93591500299a514ef63209079ff007ac;p=linux-2.6 Documentation: cciss: detecting failed drives Document how to detect drive failures for cciss Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/cciss.txt b/Documentation/cciss.txt index f74affe5c8..e65736c6b8 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: