🚀 go-pugleaf

I've seen the tape guides on  vcrs come loose which end up skewing and
chewing up the tape.  I would expect this could be a problem on dat
drives as well.  Usually the tape will get crinkled on the edge where
the guide is pushing out of alignment.

Ray Hsiao

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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