Yeah. It was down. I was completing my semiannual refresher course in topology. That is, messing with ribbon cables in a PC. Would you believe that that machine has 8 ribbon cables in it? 3 IDE cables, 1 floppy cable, 2 SCSI cables, and 2 PCMCIA adapter cables. And it's a minitower case. I'm surprised there's any air running through it at all.

By the way, don't buy Western Digital IDE drives. I just had one start to die in well less than two years. Which explains my downtime.