From 6c080f1a93591500299a514ef63209079ff007ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Stephen M. Cameron" Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 00:30:05 -0700 Subject: 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 --- Documentation/cciss.txt | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cciss.txt b/Documentation/cciss.txt index f74affe5c82..e65736c6b8b 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: -- cgit v1.2.3