Well, it's got an old IDE controler (I'm guessing PIO 1, but I can't be sure), but one of my friends is giving me a good drive out of one of his machines, so that's taken care of.. Thing is, I've already tested 7 drives in this thing and all turned out to be bad. These ranged from 170MB to 5.1GB. Kind of a pain. Only 2 of them were even detected by BIOS.
Right now, I've got 4 boxen running. my notebook and workstation run XP Pro (notebook is a 1.5GHz P4m, 512MB DDR 30 gig HD, workstation is a 1.53GHz Athlon XP, 512MB DDR, 15, 40 and 160GB hard drives), I've got my server running FreeBSD 4.6(1GHz T-Bird, 128?MB SDR, 120GB hard drive) and my BBS running BeOS (P166, 64MB EDO, unknown hard drive). As soon as we get the new screen for it, my wife's notebook will be up again running Win98 (300MHz K6-2, 128MB SDR, 2GB hard drive) and I hope to have my FreeBSD 5.0 test box up soon (dual 90MHz P5, 64MB EDO). I've also got a spare P233 with 64MB of EDO in my closet and a filing cabinet full of miscelaneous hardware. Yikes, that looks like a lot when I write it down.
I'm like you. When I have a problem, I sit down and figure it out. I ssh to my friend's machine and troubleshoot his problems (managed to fix 2 really serious problems in the last 2 weeks, too).
I've had everything here running beautifully for months, but do you think I'd be able to find a tech job? :) No papers. The only programming I ever did was in BASIC 9 years ago and I can't seem to wrap my head around perl, php or any of that stuff, so I can't really get hired with what I know. Kind of stinks. At least it's fun being geeky. :) |
