14 Oct
1999
14 Oct
'99
1:47 a.m.
At 00:05 14-10-1999 -0700, you wrote:
One thing, the drive never really seems to *look* for
the BOT marker. I
mean, pressing load causes the drive to immediately rewind a good 8"-1' of
tape and then stops there. Nothing else.
Odd...
Without being there, my next guess would be to unseat/reseat all the
connectors, including circuit boards in edge connectors, and to press down
on all chips that are not in high-rel (machined pin or 'Augat' style)
sockets. I had odd problems with a Kennedy drive once that mysteriously
vanished after I did that.
One thing I was wondering about is the small prism
located on the media
side just above the BOT/EOT sensors...what's it's function? There doesn't
appear to be anything to it besides a small prism fixed into a metal
block.
That may not be a prism. As I recall, HP used some sort of mineral blade
as a tape cleaner. I'm thinking that's what you may be looking at.
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