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Documentation: cciss: detecting failed drives
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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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Stephen M. Cameron authored and Linus Torvalds committed May 8, 2007
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* SA E200i
* SA E500

If nodes are not already created in the /dev/cciss directory, run as root:
Detecting drive failures:
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# 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:
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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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