Replace roller rubber on HP 9825 tape drive

[der Mouse]

> You can probably read the files located before the blank spot but not
> those after it.  OTOH I've thought about trying to "black out" the
> clear spot with magic marker or some other material.

I considered that too.  But...

> If you can make it dark enough that the EOT sensor doesn't trigger
> then you cmay be able to read the files after the spot but the file
> where the spot is WILL be corrupted since the media and data there is
> missing.

...yes, and if this tape fits the general pattern of QIC tapes I've
dealt with in the past, it's got serpentine recording, meaning that mo
matter where on the tape the blank spot is, logically, most of the tape
is after the blank spot, because the dropout will hit somewhere in the
first pass....

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