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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

@@ -22,14 +22,21 @@ This driver is known to work with the following cards:
 	* SA E200i
 	* SA E200i
 	* SA E500
 	* 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:
 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
 You need some entries in /dev for the cciss device.  The MAKEDEV script
 can make device nodes for you automatically.  Currently the device setup
 can make device nodes for you automatically.  Currently the device setup
 is as follows:
 is as follows: