Re: HP82161A Digital Cassette Drive Message #5 Posted by Don McCollom on 1 Aug 2008, 9:19 a.m., in response to message #4 by Dan Grelinger
Hi Dan,
Been away a few days...
Yes, the error is now related to the medium rather than device not found. I don't know why it changed. The only thing I did was re-clean the heads (which looked very shiny and clean already.) But I took your suggestion and claeaned them again.
Again, I put in a fresh tape and it went through the motions of formatting. Tape ran through twice -- once for each head I suppose. then when I tried to write to the tape I got the "medium improper" message -- I forget the exact wording.
I suspect a read/write circuitry problem because when I first used the device, after of years of storage, it seemed to catalog the tape properly and I transferrred one program from tape to HP-71. Then it quit transferring data, seemed to work mechanically, and then I got those two error messages with subsequent attempts to read and write. Since I cleaned the heads the second time I seem to only get the "improper medium" message.
Don
Edited: 1 Aug 2008, 9:19 a.m.
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