Need to know DDS drive used to write backup tapes

[Antonio Carlini]

> 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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Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org