Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 01:02:05 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 Message-ID: <Mutt.19970104010205.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701032223.XAA02167@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Jan 3, 1997 23:23:32 %2B0100 References: <Mutt.19970103204907.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701032223.XAA02167@yedi.iaf.nl>
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As Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I don't love the Exabytes anyway (still having one 8505 drive there > > that doesn't want to spit out the cassette anymore, grrr). > > Don't throw it away. Will keep an eye open for another mechanism > (assuming it is a mechanic problem). I'm not sure, but i rather suspect the firmware. Unfortunately, that drive doesn't have an EEPROM but a PLCC-48 (E)PROM. The symptoms are that it tries to rewind the tape (as it sounds), but the tape doesn't really move, so it never hits the BOT marker. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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