Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> Is the Colorado drive one of the helical scan drives? That would
> be the 8mm or 4mm drives. Those use a spinning head like a VCR and should
> only be cleaned with EXTREME caution. The heads are very thin and prone
> to damage.
Definitely no. I use the 3M (Imation) MC3000XL minicartridges which the
drive formats at 650MB. AFAIK these are QIC cartridges.
> A QIC (Quarter Inch Cartridge) tape is a whole different game,
> though. The 3M cleaning kits are wonderful for them and quite necessary
> if you get a tape head plug up (dirty or old cartridges - quite common).
> Different mechanism entirely with QIC drives. The heads are stationary
> (other than up and down tracking when reversing direction). They are
> also big suckers and pretty rugged...
>
I thought so too. But in the manual I read: "Do NOT clean the read/write
heads of Jumbo 700, 1400 and Trakker 700 tape drives". I have a
"Colorado 1400",which HP renamed to "Jumbo 1400", after buying Colorado
Backup Systems (I suppose, but perhaps this is an error...). It is not a
typo - I have read it at several places in the manual ("Colorado Backup
by Cheyenne", pp. 6-34, 6-35, 7-3, 6-18, 5-4, 5-2, edition F1214,
Revision A, in german language).
Perhaps somebody can give an insight to the reasons of this...
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