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>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/cciss.txt b/Documentation/cciss.txt
index f74affe5c829..e65736c6b8bc 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: