On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 07:14:24PM +0100, James Gilbert wrote:
>
> Keith,
>
> > James Gilbert wrote:
> > [snip war story]
> > Do you *know* it's not the floppy or parallel controller that's
> > damaged? (Depending on what your tape drive hangs off of). Try your
> > tape drive on another machine...
>
> The drive hangs off an Iomega "Dash" card (2Mb
> floppy controller). I'm sure its OK, because it
> talks to the drive; the drive just doesn't sniff
> the tape when I insert it, then claims it isn't
> formatted.
Have you tried more than one tape? I went through a lot of trouble
getting my Ditto 3200 to recognize a tape and then discovered that the
tape was bad. Have you tried formatting the tape (which takes several
hours)?
Bob
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