Re: what are cciss devices?

.... perhaps a better questiion might be why can I see just three sd
devices with fdisk -l, bjut 5 disk devices including two cciss devices
with lvmdiskscan?

(I have now found that the cciss devices are compaq raid devices :-)

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 107.3 GB, 107372544000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13053 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13053 104848191 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 53.6 GB, 53686272000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6526 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 6526 52420063+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 53.6 GB, 53686272000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6526 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 6526 52420063+ 83 Linux


]# lvmdiskscan
lvmdiskscan -- reading all disks / partitions (this may take a
while...)
lvmdiskscan -- /dev/sda1 [ 99.99 GB] free whole disk
lvmdiskscan -- /dev/sdb1 [ 49.99 GB] free whole disk
lvmdiskscan -- /dev/sdc1 [ 49.99 GB] free whole disk
lvmdiskscan -- /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 [ 99.59 MB] free whole disk
lvmdiskscan -- /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 [ 23.84 GB] free whole disk
lvmdiskscan -- 5 disks
lvmdiskscan -- 5 whole disks
lvmdiskscan -- 0 loop devices
lvmdiskscan -- 0 multiple devices
lvmdiskscan -- 0 network block devices
lvmdiskscan -- 24 partitions
lvmdiskscan -- 0 LVM physical volume partitions

.

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