18 Jun
2005
18 Jun
'05
3:19 p.m.
"Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
I bet this is what happened. In the following picture you can see the
transparent spot that Joe referred to.
http://www.series80.org/Articles/DamagedTape-lr.jpg
In this case I do not think there is any point reassembling the tape,
you are not going to read it with the 9825 tape drive.
**vp
I re-assembled
everything and tested it. It had trouble at first: the
drive would start up but then I'd get error 43 (unexpected BOT or EOT or
tape error).
Check your tape! I'll bet that you'll find a spot where the media has
come of the plastic tape and now leaves a clear spot. The EOT sensor sees
the clear spot and thinks that it's the EOT hole. 