We have this stack of shiny new computer components. Brand new AM2+ motherboard released this year, brand new CPU, brand new video card (I think it's like a month old, seriously), Lightscribe DVD drives, dual SATA hard drives, pretty widescreen monitors. Actual state of the art equipment, yanno. Which is a first for me, by the way.
So to set up the RAID drives in our new computers requires... (wait for it)
A 3.5" floppy drive.
No. Really.
But wait, there's more! That's right, for a limited time only, you can not only experience Computing From the 90s, but you can add in Cross-Connecting the Other Person's Power Supply to Your Computer to Run the Floppy Drive Because Their Computer Doesn't Like Floppies and Your Power Supply Doesn't Have a Spare Power Cable of the Right Size! (Offer not valid in all states. Do not try this at home.)
So to get the brand new, state-of-the-art computer set up with it's spiffy, modern, SATA drives in a RAID configuration required us to hook up a 3.5" floppy drive to my computer, powered by the power supply in my sweetie's computer.
NOW how much would you laugh?
But wait, read now and I'll tell you the best part of all!
My computer absolutely refused to read the DVD with the SATA RAID drivers on it so that they could be copied to the 3.5" floppy drive that is required to load the drivers to set up the nice, modern, shiny RAID system despite the fact that at this point if you asked a company to build you a new computer with a floppy drive, there's a good chance the person you were asking to build you this would ask "What's a floppy drive?" My computer was all like "I'm not taking part in this humiliating experience. There's a FLOPPY DRIVE connected to me. I need to go sign up for 20 mailing lists so I can get spam for Cialis and Viagra now, okay?"
So my sweetie had to load it into his DVD drive, so he could copy the files onto a shared drive, so I could copy the files onto MY drive, so I could copy the files onto a 3.5" floppy disk, which was hooked up to my computer but powered by his computer, so we could boot the shiny, new, SotA computers up off a floppy drive so we could set up modern, high-speed, redundant RAID capability on said brand-new, SotA computers.
At one point during this process, we speculated that at any moment we could expect our computers to combine into a mech. "FLOPPY DRIVE ACTION: GO!"
So. Yeah. Next time you think your life is weird, just remember: you aren't me.
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So I was working on computer hardware for like 762 hours and had had 2159062 cans of diet dr. genricola, and had had to deal with my computer not only not knowing what a floppy was but then intermittantly forgetting what IDE-0 could possibly mean (yay hanging at drive selection), and then with the thing crashing out of City of Heroes like six times with some almost-but-not-really horrible timing due to some sort of overheat issue, and then I managed to not only think of doing this but do it without BREAKING anything and then write the world's longest run-on sentance.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's my brain today.
~Said Sweeite