[PLUG] Mediasonic Probox issues

[Ben Koenig]

On Thursday, January 6th, 2022 at 1:57 PM, Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 3:33 PM Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, Ben Koenig wrote:
> >
> > > Step away from the command prompt and look at your enclosure as someone
> > >
> > > who will be using it every single day.
> > >
> > > -   How many bays does your enclosure have?
> > >
> > >     -How many ports does it use to connect to your computer?
> > >
> > >     -What kind of ports are they?
> > >
> > >     -which ports do they connect to on your computer?
> >
> > Ben,
> >
> > All the above is well defined: 4 bays, 1 USB connection on each end of the
> >
> > cable.
> >
> > > Forget about drive letters. You cant rely on sda/b/c for this so set
> > >
> > > fdisk aside.
> >
> > I'm used to thinking of drive letters; have done so for ~40 years.
>
> You can give labels to the disks if you can't remember the uuid's
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/persistent_block_device_naming
>
> Bill
>

No no, let him have his workflow from 40 years ago. His poor old brain can't handle all the options provided on the arch wiki. He might spaz out and do something even MORE stupid than what he already tried!

-Ben