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.
>
> any thoughts? thanks in advance!
> sadhu
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E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17-Jan-99
Time: 19:55:59
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