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cciss.4: FIXMEs resolved
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -182,10 +182,8 @@ A symbolic link to
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.IR /sys/block/cciss!cXdY .
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.IR /sys/block/cciss!cXdY .
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.TP
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.TP
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.I /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/rescan
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.I /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/rescan
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.\" FIXME The following is not clear. How is the rescan kicked off?
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When this file is written to, the driver rescans the controller
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.\" Do you write something to this file?
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to discover any new, removed or modified logical drives.
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Kicks off a rescan of the controller to discover
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logical drive topology changes.
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.TP
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.TP
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.I /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/resettable
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.I /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/resettable
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A value of 1 displayed in this file indicates that
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A value of 1 displayed in this file indicates that
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@ -296,13 +294,14 @@ as SCSI devices to the SCSI midlayer by the
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driver.
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driver.
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Specifically, physical SCSI disk drives are
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Specifically, physical SCSI disk drives are
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.I not
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.I not
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presented to the SCSI midlayer.
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presented to the SCSI midlayer. The only disk devices
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.\" FIXME The following sentence doesn't quite parse smantically, and it
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which are presented to the kernel are are logical
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.\" presents multiple ideas. Please rewrite as shorter sentences.
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drives which the array controller constructs from regions on
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The physical SCSI disk drives are controlled directly by the array controller
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the physical drives. The logical drives are presented to the
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hardware and it is important to prevent the kernel from attempting to directly
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block layer not the SCSI midlayer. It is important for the driver
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access these devices too, as if the array controller were merely a SCSI
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to prevent the kernel from accessing the physical drives directly
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controller in the same way that we are allowing it to access SCSI tape drives.
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since these drives are used by the array controller to construct
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the logical drives.
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.SS SCSI error handling for tape drives and medium changers
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.SS SCSI error handling for tape drives and medium changers
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The Linux SCSI midlayer provides an error-handling protocol which
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The Linux SCSI midlayer provides an error-handling protocol which
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is initiated whenever a SCSI command fails to complete within a
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is initiated whenever a SCSI command fails to complete within a
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.IP *
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.IP *
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If that doesn't work the host bus adapter is reset.
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If that doesn't work the host bus adapter is reset.
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.LP
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.LP
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.\" FIXME Check the following. There was a very long sentence here that
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.\" was hard to parse. I broke it into 3 sentences. Is the meaning still
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.\" correctly conveyed?
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The
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The
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.B cciss
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.B cciss
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driver is a block
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driver is a block
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