HELP: Mountain DAT Filesave 1200 chewing up tapes !!

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2 total messages Started by Gerry McMahon Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:00

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Author: Gerry McMahon
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:00

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

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Author: Ray Hsiao
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 00:00

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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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>Gerry McMahon
>Dublin, Ireland   
>[Work : mcmahong@netc.ie, Home : mcmahong@iol.ie]
>http://www.netc.ie/
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