1 Mar
2007
1 Mar
'07
5:30 a.m.
--- Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
After a recent fight with some Cipher tape drives,
trying to boot a system, I managed to badly mangle
the
leader of my boot tape. Now, rewriting the tape
isn't
a problem, but fixing the tape is. I can cut off the
mangled leader, but then there won't be enough tape
left before the BOT marker. The BOT on a nine track
is
just a hunk of sensing foil, just like I remember
from
trying to repair eight track tapes (BTW, tinfoil and
double sided tape _doesn't_ work on eight tracks).
Rat
Shack no longer sells sensing foil, surprise,
surprise
- so, does anyone know of a currently available
solution? That metal duct work tape perhaps? I don't
want to use anything that might risk damage to the
heads though. Any ideas?
After a bit of googleing it looks as if the sensing
foil is still available, although it's meant for audio
use. Was that foil the same as the foil used in nine
tracks?
-Ian