On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <
> skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 6:03 PM, <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> the drive might be sensitive to the timing?
>>>>
>>>> can you pull and replug the drive and see if there are any
>>>> error messages on the console?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know what "console" is.  I don't see anything at my Plan-9 Shell
>>> (RC) or on the screen in general.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> see definition of console: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_console
>>
>
>
> Just in case you are serious about your comment, I understand what a
> "console" is in the most generic terms, i.e. your wikipedia reference.
>
> I also understand that Plan 9 (not Plan-9) has a number of servers.  I
> presume a console would be a window into said server.  All this is utterly
> useless unless I know the command to get a "console" window into the server
> he is referring to.  I need the command.
>

As it says in the first paragraph, it is: "display device for system
administration messages, particularly those from the BIOS or boot loader
...".