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Ya know …
I'm turning yet another Cobalt RaQ into a firewall. It requires the use of
another PC (Personal Computer) (with a particular setup—basically, the Cobalt
RaQ CD (Compact Disc) 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 [1] 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 (Integrated Drive
Electronics) 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.
[1]
http://wlofie.dyndns.org/
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