On a Silver Platter...

New hard drive is up and spinning! Life is back in motion, I still have a few more DVD's worth of images to dump back onto this archive drive, and my photo shoot redeaux is scheduled for this weekend. Looks like things will return to normal once again. Whew! Wait? What is normal? Hmmm. Let's just dance around that one for now.

I had to mess around with the BIOS settings in my Dell XBS. I run two 120GB 10,000rpm SATA drives in RAID 0, so this new replacement drive should be the Slave, right? I'm using the secondary EIDE cable (1), not the primary (0). Noooope. Dell still wants to call it the Primary Master. Once I got that figured out, I thought things would be fairly automatic from then on. Silly me. The only way this drive would mount was to jumper it as Cable Select. So I'm running as Primary 0 CS on EIDE 1. Weird, but it works.

Thanks to Friend 'X' for hooking me up with a killer deal on a new Western Digital drive. 250GB's of goodness. This drive was hand picked and professionally tested thoroughly before being installed. Very cool.