Re: 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?


we have one of those tape drives, and i think i've seen that happen
once.  i can't recall for sure if we got an error message or not, but i
don't think we did. 

we've had that tape drive for almost 10 years, and propped the top up
years ago.  in fact i had forgotten that you're actually not supposed to
see what goes on inside!

since we do media conversions, we have to have that drive, but tankfully
we're getting less and less of the big reels.  i really dislike them!

nj
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