When 4mm Drives Eat Tapes

While attempting to restore some files from a 4mm tape, using an HP SureStore Tape 2000 drive, something happened to me for the first time: the drive made a strange moaning sound then stopped reading the tape. Not only did the drive stop reading the tape, but it had begun eating the tape as well, nearly chewing all the way through it on one spot. I'm guessing that this is a problem which, if not affecting others yet, will soon start affecting others who are relying upon such drives for backing up and restoring critical data. Fortunately, I'd recently switched to using DLT IV drives for backups, but a few files that I wanted to restore were still on other tapes. Does anyone know where rubber parts for these drives, like rollers, can can be purchased, so that others with these drives can replace them and avoid what I experienced? I should have realized that something was about to go wrong with internal parts as well when one of the drive's rubber feet began to stick to the metal chassis it was resting upon. -- R. D. Davis 410-744-4900 Beware & halt the National Animal ID System (NAIS)! www.rddavis.org http://nonais.org http://www.libertyark.org www.danglingspiders.com http://www.rddavis.org/equitation/freedom-vs-id.html Dangling Spiders Electronic Music Studio http://www.stopanimalid.org