Re: 3580 L33 tape drive

Had a similar problem earlier this week.

Ours is an external SCSI attached tape. Placed a call with IBM who sent out
an engineer.

Had to unscrew the box to access the 'unwound' tape which he manually pulled
out and fed back +/- 1/2 a meter of tape into the still mounted TAPE
cartridge. So the tape had been unloaded from the cartridge and had snapped
or broken loose.

Reattached the box and powered it back on...this eventually rewound the tape
and we were able to eject.

The tape is effectively kaput! We could possibly send it out to be fixed but
don't think it's worth the risk. Rather replace with a new tape.

BTW ours was stuck on red code 8.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Paul


On 29 October 2010 11:20, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

List,

I know it's Friday night, but I'm getting ready to do an OS upgrade. My
save
got about 15% done when I got a media error. I now have a red 6 on the
front
of the drive, and the tape will not eject.

The customer's maintenance records can't be found by that big call center
in
the sky (Phillippines).

Anybody know how to eject this tape?

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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