The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

Go figure.

Monday, September 18, 2006

Ya know …

I'm turning yet another Cobalt RaQ into a firewall. It requires the use of another PC (with a particular setup—basically, the Cobalt RaQ CD boots off a PC which enables you to to a network boot of the RaQ, and that boot will reformat and install the operating system on the RaQ) which I didn't have on Friday. I have (or rather, Wlofie has) the proper setup at home, but when he did it, the install didn't care for the harddrive.

So now I'm at The Office. We dug out the computer I used to use for this (an older PC in a large case that sounds like a diesel truck that badly needs a tuneup). For the past two hours I've been trying a series of harddrives and none of them seem to work. I try different installation disks (thinking maybe one of them is bad) and still, none of the five harddrives I'm trying are working.

Then Smirk notices that the Cobalt RaQ has two IDE cables. “Sean, humor me,” he said. “Try plugging the drive in the other cable.”

“I don't think it should matter,” I said, not noticing that I said The Word.

“But maybe it does.”

“Maybe,” I said, plugging the drive Smirk wanted to use in the other IDE cable.

It mattered.

It's now working.

Sigh.

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