HELP! My new Redboard Qwiic dev-15123 is acting like an Adafruit Metro 4 Airlift Lite?!

Qwiic System
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I’m new to this so please let me know if I’m posting in the right place. I purchased the board a few weeks ago but decided to try it out today. I use an old iMac running El Capitan for Arduino projects whenever possible. I followed the driver installation in the hookup guide repeatedly, with no luck having the port recognized, so I gave up - this is not the real issue right now.

I thought I would have better luck with a Rasberry Pi 3B+ running Raspbian Buster, followed the instructions about apt-get update upgrade etc, etc. No luck finding the port in that Arduino IDE either.

So, I double clicked the reset button and OMG the Neopixel on the Redboard glowed a bright green! Sure enough, I then saw a mounted drive icon on my Pi desktop - CircuitPy. Double-click the reset again and the drive icon reads Metro4boot.

I don’t really understand bootloaders but I had tried to use an Adafruit Metro 4 Airlift Lite board with the Pi (and the iMac) earlier this year. It’s almost like my Pi is “infected” by that horrible product. I can always flash a new Buster image to the SD card but how do I get rid of it on the Redboard? Is it completely trashed?

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Dave-eBoy,

I bet everyone who read this thought you were crazy! By now you’ve probably realized that you not only have a new Redboard Qwiic but an equally new Redboard Turbo and once you figured out that if you used the right setup instructions for the right board you would discover they both work (Blink). Now you can have a good laugh at yourself and get started on our Rube Goldberg project tomorrow. :lol:

Your biggest fan,

Dave-eBoy