13 Oct
1999
13 Oct
'99
5:32 p.m.
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, John Lawson wrote:
Disconnect the interface cables and see if she'll load up
standalone. Also, Mark Green has a Very Good bit of advice as well.
(hint: is there a BOT reflector on the tape? I had to take apart my
Cipher 880 and dredge the tape out by hand because the BOT marker
had fallen off and the drive became disoriented...)
Yeah, there's a BOT marker on it. The drive *was* loading and finding BOT
with a blank tape before, all connected and everything. Now it won't even
load that tape, or any of the newly created OS tapes I just received.
I tried removing the interface cable and no-go. I'm not sure if you
remember, but when we dragged the beastie up to my house and tried to load
a tape, it took a couple of tries before it worked...ideas?
Cheers,
Aaron