Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

[Patrick May <pmmay pacbell net>]

Thanks for the info. I kept using -F which doesn't work. I press the
space bar so that I can scan for anything funky going on.

Patrick

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 20:23, Bret Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 19:28, Patrick May wrote:
> > >From this information, you still need to load the aic7xxx module which
> > is the driver for the 2930 (and many other Adaptec controllers.)
> > 
> > As root do "modprobe aic7xxx' and it should detect and make the
> > appropriate entries in /var/log/messages (and dmesg I think will show
> > it.) For this I either run another xterm or log in as root on a virtual
> > terminal and 'less /var/log/messages'. Press the space bar until you see
> > END highlighted and then give it a capital "F". shift+f. This will put
> > less into follow mode (anyone know a command line parameter to do this?
> > I think it was -f, but that's never worked for me.)
> 
> less +F /var/log/messages
> 
> + sends the command following it to the less process as soon as it
> starts.  BTW you should not have to hit the spacebare to get the file to
> the end before entering F while in a session.
> 
> Bret
> 
> 
> 
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