WAN: protect Cisco HDLC state changes with a spinlock.

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / Documentation / cciss.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/cciss.txt b/Documentation/cciss.txt
index 45a738b..e65736c 100644 (file)
--- 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:
@@ -80,7 +87,7 @@ the /proc filesystem entry which the "block" side of the driver creates as
 the SCSI core may not yet be initialized (because the driver is a block 
 driver) and attempting to register it with the SCSI core in such a case 
 would cause a hang.  This is best done via an initialization script 
-(typically in /etc/init.d, but could vary depending on distibution). 
+(typically in /etc/init.d, but could vary depending on distribution). 
 For example:
 
        for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]*