Ya know, I really dislike TK50 drives...

From: Daniel T. Burrows <dburrows_at_netpath.net>
Date: Sat Apr 14 13:24:21 2001

Welcome to TK50 terrorism. The only thing now is to rewind manually. I
typically use a battery drill with a Phillips bit. You will find a hole in
the center of the PCB directly under the cartridge that exposes a Phillips
screw. This is the cartridge drive spindle. On slow speed rewind it back
into the cart. with the drill.

What did you in are the sensors on the 2 tape rollers. If either of the
rollers stick in either direction the drive decides it does not know where
on the tape it is and shuts down. I use a marker on the top of the rollers
to determine which roller is causing the problem. Then just watch the marks
while loading a tape.

Don't feel bad - I have gone through over a dozen drives to get good ones
and the biggest cause failure are those roller bearings.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, April 13, 2001 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: Ya know, I really dislike TK50 drives...


>At 04:26 PM 4/13/2001 -0700, Zane wrote:
>>Have you powercycled the system and told it to unload the tape? I've seen
>>this before, unfortuantly I don't remember what I did to fix it.
>
>Yup, this was one of my first things I tried. Then running it not connected
>to the TQK50. Neither will get it to rewind.
>
>--Chuck
>
Received on Sat Apr 14 2001 - 13:24:21 BST