I don't happen to have the manual handy, but have
the drives
swallowed the tape leader? It's a bit of a pain in the neck to
restring the leader on a DLT7000 compared to a TK50, but it's still
not that hard. When you look in the drive, you should see something
that looks like the bottom end of the following:
http://zane.brouhaha.com/~healyzh/TK50-Leader.gif
Zane
A vote in favour of that suggestion: the TZ87 on my desk
right now suffered the same symptoms, was fixed (by someone
else) and the problem was precisely this. I'm told it is
apparently quite common.
Antonio
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