I sure did learn a lot today.
I learned that I'm not nearly as smart as I think that I am, and that is really sad, because I don't really have that high of an opinion of my intelligence to start of with...
I got up fairly early and got the computers prepared for their big brother, the 450. Got the HDs ready and everything, laid out the peripheral boards... all ready to go.
I called about noon, and it was ready, so I went out and picked it up. Got it home, put the HDs in and turned it on.
The machine didn't recognize either of the huge hard drives. It said that there were no drives at all.
This was extremely NOT GOOD.
I struggled with this problem until about 03:00, desperately trying not to lose my data... I was so confidant that I knew what I was doing, I'd failed to make back-ups.
What I found out was... the large hard drives are not like the small ones, which you can swap from machine to machine with impunity. No, the bastards are SPECIAL, they need to be installed with a program that comes on a floppy.
And the default with that program assumes that you just bought the drive, and you want to partition it and format it.
Such was not the case... and I finally figgered it out... after I'd lost about two gigs of data on what was my main drive.
Anyway, I gave it up at 03:00 and went to bed.