[PATCH] Documentation: cciss: detecting failed drives

From: Stephen Cameron
Date: Tue Apr 17 2007 - 15:59:45 EST



From: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@xxxxxx>

Document how to detect drive failures for cciss

---

Documentation/cciss.txt | 13 ++++++++++---
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN Documentation/cciss.txt~cciss_vol_status_doc Documentation/cciss.txt
--- linux-2.6.21-rc6/Documentation/cciss.txt~cciss_vol_status_doc 2007-04-13 13:56:17.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc6-scameron/Documentation/cciss.txt 2007-04-13 14:01:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -22,14 +22,21 @@ This driver is known to work with the fo
* 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:
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