Without going into too much detail, my first-ever (yes, Entercom’s a bit behind the times in some ways) official Employee Review went fairly well. That’s one less thing to worry about in my permanent record, I suppose. It has been noted that I need to work on my organizational and communications skills and sometimes my attitude leaves a bit to be desired. All in all, though, it was a positive review. Yay!

The really big news of the day is that our problems with The Beast are all over. You see, it finally dawned on me that I should contact 3Ware about their RAID controller. After a couple of email exchanges, this is what I was told:

“If you have a 5xxx series controller, pressing F9 instead of ENTER will accept dissimilar drives into an array.”

Aaaaaargh! It was that easy all along? How about a hint on the screen that ENTER isn’t the only keypress available? How about something in the printed docs? Huh?

I don’t care too much about documentational and user-interface stupidity right now, though, because The Beast finally has a working 500 gigabyte array onto which Enco files are being copied as I type this. Hot diggity damn. That’s one major problem off my back. Two, if you count the Employee Review…