Re: HELP: Mountain DAT Filesave 1200 chewing up tapes !!

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From: Chuck Stuettgen
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 00:00

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mcmahong@iol.ie (Gerry McMahon) wrote:

>Mountain DAT Filesave 1200 used to backup Netware 3.12 server.
>Recently backup has often failed wit 'iocntl' error. The drive runs
>out several inches of tape which becomes tangled in the mechanism,
>destroying the tape.

>I've used a cleaning cassette, taken the covers off the drive and
>cleaned the optics and mechanism with an airjet can. Everthing looks
>clean and I can't see anything loose or obviously out of place.

>Thanks for any ideas on what to do next, now that Mountain no longer
>exist.

>Gerry


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>Gerry McMahon
>Dublin, Ireland   
>[Work : mcmahong@netc.ie, Home : mcmahong@iol.ie]
>http://www.netc.ie/
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Trash the drive and buy a new one.  That's what I finally had to do
with our Filesafe 1200-4 Dual unit after the third time we had it
repaired for that. problem...

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From: jlw@neosoft.com (Chuck Stuettgen)
Subject: Re: HELP: Mountain DAT Filesave 1200 chewing up tapes !!
Date: 1996/08/30
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