tk70? what's normal?

[Michael Sokolov]

Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote:

> When the cable is in properly (I presume), the green led is on and the
> 'in use' just keeps flashing.

It is not supposed to keep flashing, when the drive is idle with no tape
in (like after successful power-up) the green LED should be the only one
on.  It should also make a beep.

> Occationally it makes little scraping
> noises like it's trying to load the tape.
> [...]
> Is this drive dead/broken perhaps?

I would say so.

MS