Date   : Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:45:35 +0100 (BST)
From   : Chris Johns <chris@...>
Subject: Re: MDFS Tape Drives

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Ian Wolstenholme wrote:

> At last I have some tapes for my MDFS tape drive!  But I can't
> get the MDFS to access the tape drive.  Can anyone help?

do you have version 2 of the "FS" code? Not sure which tape drive you
have, but SJ released a 120MB version, not sure if that would work with
the older FS code, tho if you have the 40MB version of the tape drive, I
guess that wouldn't matter.

> Even in utility mode, as soon as you press T for tape menu, the
> MDFS crashes again and has to be switched off before it will respond.

I don't recally my MDFS doing that, I think it just told you there was no
tape unit connected. Is the SCSI id on the tape set correctly - tho if its
from another MDFS, I cant think why it woulld be different!

> I hope somebody can help; it would be a shame if it didn't work now I
> hav managed to get the tapes.
>

Good luck. I have up with tape streamers after one fried my MDFS PSU. IIRC
they were odd beasts, appeared as a (very slow) hard disc, and supported
direct access.

Cheers

Chris