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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

Christof Lange wrote:
> Before further decrypting your script,

It helps to put all the $(foo) and $((foo)) commands on separate lines.

> For the first device the kernel announces scsi0, that can be
> translated to /dev/sda1, the next device is registered as scsi1.
> The fifth on, however, is interpreted as /dev/sde1. This is funny as
> the device does not exist on my BL2 installation.

Steven left out some of the more unusual device names to save space
and reduce complexity. More than 4 SCSI disks is quite rare these
days, especially on the hardware that BL is targetted to. However, you
can make your own device nodes, following the same pattern as the
others.

> But in reality it
> is possible to mount it - from /dev/sda1. Unfortunately it is not
> possible to find the place by simply counting and doing modulus 4,
> because there are two USB slots and the new device can only be found
> on an address that is not yet occupied... So the kernel messages
> are interesting, but not sufficient.

I cannot test or explain this. I only have two USB slots on this PC.

> BTW: Is there a way to prevent these messages to appear on the
> screen? IMO it would be enough to read them through dmesg.

According to the man page here:

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/dmesg.8.html

You can use dmesg to adjust the level of logging. Their example is:

dmesg -n 1

"-n 1 prevents all messages, expect panic messages, from appearing on
the console."

> >P.S. Christof, is your computer's clock set correctly? My mail system
> >says that I received this message at about 9 this morning but the
> >message is dated 6 o'clock tonight. Could this be a timezone problem
> >(GMT instead of local time, or me being halfway around the world from
> >Czechoslovakia)?

I mainly asked because my replies appear before your questions in this list:

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2007-January/date.html

> I have no idea where you are located

Pacific Time, North America

> But obviously it is you, who has set the clock incorrectly,

I guess so. Or else it depends on how you look at it.

> actually Czechoslovakia is not only 9
> hours away, but 14 years - in the year 1993 Slovakia was separated
> from Czech republic and Czechoslovakia ceased to exist.

I realized this soon after I posted. (Note to self: do not write about
names of countries until In-brain Geographical Unit (TM) is
actiavted.)

Hey, since this list is about using hardware from that era, maybe it
doesn't hurt to have a mentality that's stuck in the early 90s?

> Christof, 3th Jan 7:53 a.m.

David