SUMMARY: exabyte: manually removed tape; still won't open

From: Brian T. Shelden (shelden@lii.law.cornell.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 01 1995 - 13:18:00 CST


Hi all--

Unanimous 'net wisdom is that the drive is fried, and
needs service and/or replacement. My thanks to:

sgs@hoccson.ho.att.com
Sean Ward <seanw@belgarath.amgen.com>
thielen@irus.rri.uwo.ca (Susan Thielen)
raoul@mit.edu

--Brian T. Shelden Systems Coordinator
bts1@cornell.edu Legal Information Institute
(607) 255-9093 Cornell Law School

>Brian T. Shelden said:
>|
>|
>| Hi all--
>|
>| I have an Exabyte 8500 in a Sun enclosure attached to an
>| ELC running 4.1.2. Lately it wouldn't eject a tape.
>| Yellow light on, green light off.
>|
>| I perused the summaries at
>| http://sunsite.unc.edu/sun/inform/sun-managers-summary.html,
>| finding suggestions to take it apart and manually eject the
>| tape.
>|
>| This I did. My problems were probably caused by loose
>| tapes: when I hit the manual eject switch, the tape
>| wouldn't come all the way out. It seemed to be tangled
>| around something in back. Since the tape was already
>| mangled, I cut the tape strip and pulled the ends out from
>| around the metal cylinder in back.
>|
>| However, after putting it back together, it still won't
>| eject tapes. And, now it won't *accept* them either.
>|
>| I bet I bent one of those rods sticking up. The door will
>| close all the way, but it won't latch. The tapes seem to
>| be getting stretched upwards.
>|
>| Any more suggestions? Or am I stuck calling a
>| serviceperson?
>|
>| TIA,
>|
>| --Brian T. Shelden Systems Coordinator
>| bts1@cornell.edu Legal Information Institute
>| (607) 255-9093 Cornell Law School
>|



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