Date   : Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:54:24 +0100
From   : BBCMailingList@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: Possibly available: SJ FDFS

I wonder if anyone might happen to know what is the problem with
my tape drive, which appears to work to all intents and
purposes, autoloading and rewinding etc. but whenever
I try to format the tapes or write anything, I get a "tape
write protected" error.  I have tried about a dozen different
tapes, new and old, with the same result every time.  Could
it be a problem with the sensor in the drive?

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Stuart Winter [mailto:m-lists@...]
To: 
Cc: bbc-micro@...
Sent: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:41:43 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Possibly available: SJ FDFS

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Chris Johns wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
>
> > I have a Syquest 44MB removable drive in my MDFS, set up
> > as drive J:
>
> It would be nice to be able to use zip / syquest drives in place of the
> tape units, since there must be about zero working MDFS tape units left
> now.

I have a working tape drive!  :-)  It's one of the 60MB versions.

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