Wanted: Rubber drive wheel for HP 9144 tape drive

[Richard Lynch]

I have an old Altos tape drive that uses DC300 tapes.  I went to the local
hardware store and bought a rubber grommet with an inside diameter just
slightly smaller than the capstan on the drive, so it would fit nice and
tight.  I then used fine sandpaper to get the outer diameter to match the
original.  Slipped it on the capstan and backed up the hard drive on my
ACS8000.

on 5/18/05 7:20 PM, Tony Duell at ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:

>> I don't know the 9144 number.  If that's a QIC drive, I (and probably
> 
> It is, and it isn't :-). The tapes are the same physical dimensions as,
> say, a DC300 cartridge, but the format is not one of the QIC formats. In
> fact the tapes are pre-formatted by HP and can't be reformatted by the
> drive. 
> 
> IIRC the 9144 is a 16 track unit, the 9145 is similar but 32 track.
> 
> -tony