4 Dec
2009
4 Dec
'09
10:25 p.m.
wind the tape all the way off the other spool. The
tape wasn't attached at
all, just wound around the reel with enough extra to hold it in place. I
don't know how many times I've opened those QIC cartridges and crazy-glued
the tape back onto the reel after blowing the dust out of the drive. They
Yiu don;'t need (and shouldn't) glue anything. You cna just wind the tape
on as it was origianlly, then turn the 2 reels in opposite directions by
hand to tension the tape, reassemble the catridge and do the normal
'retension tape' procedure on the drive.
This was in the user manuals for some of the QIC drives I've worked with
(back when user manuals contained useful information).
didn't want their data back. They were just too
cheap to buy new
cartridges. :-/
Although the manuals make it clear this procesudre is to be done only to
recover data from damaged tapes. And that you should buy new tapes
afterwards...
Does anyobody elase remebr the 'what is the true cost of a diskette'
advert? It gave some very high figure and then pointed out that $2 (or
something) was the media and the rest was paying a typist to re-enter the
data. I don;'t think it pointed out that if you didn;'t have a copy of
the data, the cost was going to be even higher, That ad conviced me to
always use good-quality media (not necessarily from whatver company it
was advertising, thohgh).
-tony