Need to know DDS drive used to write backup tapes

From: Antonio Carlini <a.carlini_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun Oct 3 13:53:03 2004

> I don't happen to have the manual handy, but have the drives
> swallowed the tape leader? It's a bit of a pain in the neck to
> restring the leader on a DLT7000 compared to a TK50, but it's still
> not that hard. When you look in the drive, you should see something
> that looks like the bottom end of the following:
> http://zane.brouhaha.com/~healyzh/TK50-Leader.gif
>
> Zane

A vote in favour of that suggestion: the TZ87 on my desk
right now suffered the same symptoms, was fixed (by someone
else) and the problem was precisely this. I'm told it is
apparently quite common.

Antonio

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Received on Sun Oct 03 2004 - 13:53:03 BST

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