At 03:59 AM 1/17/99 -0800, you wrote:
>aloha,
>
>what do you make of this? tape drive was working ok. its not that
>old (a month or so). after a few tapes, it stopped working. physically.
>
>formerly, as soon as i would put a tape in the drive (even before it was
>working) the green light would come on and the drive would whir a bit,
>winding the tape forward and back a little bit.
>
>now, i put in a tape, nothing happens at all.
>
>do you think the drive has become physically defective?
>
>problem calling Iomega. there is no dos or windows on this machine. they
>wont talk to linux people. they wont answer my question if this behavior
>means the drive is defective, they want to "run diagonostics" under dos.
>
>any thoughts? thanks in advance!
>sadhu
>
>
Hi, you might want to look into the size of the DOS diagnostics program.
It could be small enough to fit on a bootable floppy.
If so, you may be able to run it from the floppy.
You would also need to find out if it needs any tape drivers to run.
See if the drivers can also be put on a floppy.
I hope this helps,
Dale
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