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In article <38upo3$ipv@umd5.umd.edu>
           colbert@astro.umd.edu "Edward J.M. Colbert" writes:

>Hi,
>
>I own a Colorado DJ20 (Jumbo 250) which reads and writes DC2120 tapes in QIC-80
>format.  Just today it did some very strange things and I am trying to figure 
>out what to do next.  I have 3 tapes which it rewound (off spool) and gave me 
>error 99 (0a) which is
>  Broken tape or tape sensor -- remove tape from drive.  Discard tape if
>  broken or spooled off.
>So I re-spooled one of the the tapes (what a bugger of a job!) and tried 
>again.  It unspooled the tape again.   So I re-spooled again and wound the
>tape about 1/4 of the way, and it again unspooled the tape, each time with
>the same error.
>
>I need the data from these tapes.  Could it be a problem with the drive
>instead?

Of course. Clean the sensor !


>  It's about 4 years old and I don't think I ever cleaned the heads,
>but I've only written/read about 9 tapes.  If the tapes sensor is screwed
>up, how can I get the data off these tapes?

Clean it !  Not the heads, the thing that bounces a light beam through the
holes in the tape that denothe the end !

-- 
John Beardmore     wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk
                   wookie@cix.compulink.co.uk