Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: magtape ok again Message-ID: <3032@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 18:50:43 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.3032 Posted: Mon Jun 20 18:50:43 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jun-83 18:50:43 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 7 The magtape is now functioning again; as suspected, it turned out to be misoriented cables. Inverting all three cables at the drive cleared up the problems. I really don't understand how Plessey got those cables into the controller the other way around -- the way we plugged them back in looked like the only possible way -- but that's the way it must have been. A pox on people who use nonpolarized connectors.