On 12/30/17 17:34, Joe Zeff wrote:
Jerry Pournelle always said that the first thing you should do in troubleshooting computers is to check the cables. I don't think this is the sort of problem he was thinking of, and alas, I can't ask him.
. I tend to expect software problems rather that hardware these days, despite having spent half my life solving hardware problems ... And in this case it was operator error, the hardware is more reliable than me.