19 Nov
2004
19 Nov
'04
10:36 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
What are the odds that two identical tape drives have the cable
connectors reversed?
So I tried flipping the cable anyway. ;) It didn't help.
squeal
continuously as long as they're attached to the SCSI bus
The SCSI cable is backwards.
I ran into this a few weeks ago. You should also think about cleaning the heads. The
easiest, totally
non-obvious way is pop the two C washers (with the power off obviously
on the head stack, and pull the stack up to gain access to the head
surface.
Clean with "head cleaner" if you can still find a bottle, or 99% isopropyl
I have some head cleaner. I've been putting off cleaning it, but I
may have to do that.
Doc