9810 question and offer

[Tony Duell]

(02-27-2014 05:33 AM)dramsey Wrote:  I have all of these machines. The 9830 was the one that was closest to "perfect condition" when I obtained it, although it had a problem in that it would not reliably write tapes. This was fixed with a board-swap from a dead 9865 external drive (sorry). It has the 9866(?) thermal printer on top, which means I never need to worry about anyone stealing it.

I am going to guess either the 09865-66562 (Blue/Red) or 09865-66563 (Blue/Orange) PCBs (As you must have noticed, the handles on these boards give the last 2 digits of the part number), probably the former. Unreliable writing (as opposed to not writing at all) might be something as simple as the write clock being way off-frequency.

Even HP expected you to repair the tape control boards (but not the drive) to component level in the field.