Hi Sadhunathan,
On 18-Jan-99 Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote:
> hi carl
>
> sounds logical, but ..
>
> well, its like - i installed the drive. then i got the ftape stuff
> working with your help. then i made a few tapes. then suddenly it
> stopped working. the hardware was basically not touched, it was
> just sitting there (and had been installed for a month before i got
> past the
> modules problem) .. so for the cables to suddenly become loose ..
> .. after a month .. no bumps to the machine or anything ..,
> ah, seems pretty unlikely. no?
Well extreme changes in temperature can do it also. My background is
in electronics and I've seen it happen more than once, but your right
it's a stretch.
> any possiblility it could be some sensor that has gotten dirty?
Yes, but they're a pain to clean. open the unit very carefully and use
a cotton swab with a little isopropel alcohol (this type won't melt
plastics).
> At 07:57 PM 1/17/1999 -0500, Carl J. Nobile wrote:
>>Hi Sadhunathan,
>>
>>Before you return the drive check the cables, who knows it could
>>be as dumb as that.
>>
>>Carl
>>
>>On 17-Jan-99 Sadhunathan Nadesan 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.
Yes, I got the same shit from them once. I eventually told them it
wasn't working at all and they sent me a rebuilt one which has worked
perfect for about a year now.
>>> any thoughts? thanks in advance!
>>> sadhu
Somebody else mentioned putting the dos diag program on a bootable
floppy disk along with the drivers if they fit--not a bad idea.
But one needs to know how to create a dos bootable disk with all
the right files on it to do that.
Carl
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E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18-Jan-99
Time: 20:06:42
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