Date   : Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:27:23 +0100
From   : Phil Blundell <philb@...>
Subject: Re: MDFS Tape Drives

On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 11:48 +0100, Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> Without a tape drive connected, the error message in the tape menu
> (or if you try to do *DIR %TAPE) is "Error - no Bsy" ie. no drive connected.
> But for some reason when the tape drive is attached, the machine crashes
> altogether when you try to access the tape drive in utility mode.

It sounds rather as if your drive is just broken, and is asserting BSY
forever for some reason.  Testing it on another machine would be a good
idea.

p.