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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>

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Documentation/cciss.txt
··· 22 22 * SA E200i 23 23 * SA E500 24 24 25 + Detecting drive failures: 26 + ------------------------- 27 + 28 + To get the status of logical volumes and to detect physical drive 29 + failures, you can use the cciss_vol_status program found here: 30 + http://cciss.sourceforge.net/#cciss_utils 31 + 32 + Device Naming: 33 + -------------- 34 + 25 35 If nodes are not already created in the /dev/cciss directory, run as root: 26 36 27 37 # cd /dev 28 38 # ./MAKEDEV cciss 29 - 30 - Device Naming: 31 - -------------- 32 39 33 40 You need some entries in /dev for the cciss device. The MAKEDEV script 34 41 can make device nodes for you automatically. Currently the device setup