Things I Should Know By Now

When adding a hard drive to an existing MS system, never ever trust cable select.

Because in all my experience, I've discovered that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and there's no logic to it. But it just really isn't that hard to set your jumpers for master and slave.

Did I do that tonight? No, I added a new hard drive for music, and the system found it, we partitioned and set it up, rebooted, and the system refused to come up. Of course. Set the jumpers to slave and master, and all is well.

This is something I should have learned by now.

[Posted at 22:15 CST on 05/12/03] [Link]