26 Nov
2012
26 Nov
'12
10:38 a.m.
On 11/26/2012 12:29 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
On Monday (11/26/2012 at 06:56AM -0700), cctech at
vax-11.org wrote:
The trick is if the roller on inspection is soft to the point of goo
is to NOT INSERT a tape and foul it with the goo.
These rollers all by now have failed to goo and the only choice is to
remove the roller and remove the goo and replace with tygon tubing
or other rubber product. I started seeing failed rollers more than
18 years ago so this is not a new problem.
Allison
I've been able to recover tapes that were
damaged by a gooey capstan
by reading the tape until a bad block appeared, cleaning the head,
and repeating.
Each pass transfers a little bit of goo from the tape to the head,
eventually removing enough to read the block.
Yes. Unfortunately, what I'm
experiencing is the roller in the cartridge
embeds itself into the gooey capstan and then stops turning. It'll start
moving fine, seeking pretty far in and then begins turning slower and
slower until it finally fails with a motor stall error.
Chris