Re: tape eating

If the tape drive is not varied on, you may not receive an error message.
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From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com>
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 5:08 PM
Subject: tape eating


>Day before yesterday the guy who sits next to me was loading an open reel
>tape on one of the "pizza oven" type drives where you slide the tape in
>horizontally and everything happens behind closed doors.  There was either
a
>problem with the drive, or the tape was defective.  The tape came loose
from
>its reel and ended up on the takeup reel.  We called IBM and someone came
>out and removed the tape from the drive.
>
>The odd thing (?) was that when the drive was unable to rewind and unload
>the tape, there was no error message.  It was a cpyfrmtap with the end of
>tape option *unload.  Is it normal for this not to generate an error
>message?
>
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>The above is my personal opinion and is not intended to represent good
>programming practice or the product of a sound mind.
>
>Joel Fritz
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