What brand tape? I’ve seen this done by a tech on a DLT7000 drive, maybe on a DLT4000, I think they’re basically the same. I seem to remember the tech used a 9-Volt batter to rewind a stuck tape. The leaders as I recall are very similar for TK50, TK70, and DLTIII.
Zane > On Sep 1, 2020, at 9:19 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been trying to read data from some ~2000 era DLT III cartridges that > were written on a TZ87. > > > The first one read OK. But the second one failed and it seems that the leader > was torn off. I tried a new drive and a second cartridge has failed the same > way (the leader was there, now it's not). > > > My immediate problem is that I now have two drives (a TZ88 and a TZ870 that > fail POST (all LEDs blink). I guess I need to open them up, fish out the > stray leader and fix them up somehow. Does anyone have any experience of > doing this? > > > My second problem is that I'd quite like to stop this from happening again. > I'm guessing that it happened because the cartridge mechanism was jammed. > I've just played around with a TK50-K cartridge and if I jam the two release > mechanisms (using the "nose" of two pliers), open the "tape hatch" and gently > pull the tape, it moves. Then I can "rewind" it and it's back to the way it > was. I'm wondering whether this is safe to do on the DLT III tapes I still > want to recover? Is it likely to at least tell me which tapes are likely to > fail and which might load properly? > > > My third problem i that I have two cartridges without a leader. Is this > something that can be rectified? > > > Thanks for any useful information. > > > Antonio > > > > -- > Antonio Carlini > [email protected] >
