Dead 300

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We were playing around with a old 300 with V3R2 we had sitting around, we
were going to use it on our testbed network, we got it to see a 3490 tape
drive, just barely, and one of the network guys, (against my better
judgment, wanted to reload the operating system, well lo and behold the tape
drive failed, maybe cause the tapes were old, maybe cause the cable we
attached to the tape drive slipped off, anyway now it gets the infamous B900
3121 SRC, reload OS. Now it doesn't seem to see the tape drive and it won't
come up past the service tools, is there a way to manually fix it or am I
SOL?
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