Desperate...Help...HP 9-track drive...

From: Aaron Christopher Finney <af-list_at_lafleur.wfi-inc.com>
Date: Thu Oct 14 00:32:16 1999

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, John Lawson wrote:

>
>
> Disconnect the interface cables and see if she'll load up
> standalone. Also, Mark Green has a Very Good bit of advice as well.
> (hint: is there a BOT reflector on the tape? I had to take apart my
> Cipher 880 and dredge the tape out by hand because the BOT marker
> had fallen off and the drive became disoriented...)

Yeah, there's a BOT marker on it. The drive *was* loading and finding BOT
with a blank tape before, all connected and everything. Now it won't even
load that tape, or any of the newly created OS tapes I just received.

I tried removing the interface cable and no-go. I'm not sure if you
remember, but when we dragged the beastie up to my house and tried to load
a tape, it took a couple of tries before it worked...ideas?


Cheers,

Aaron
Received on Thu Oct 14 1999 - 00:32:16 BST