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How do you unhang an 8mm tape drive?
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Burtin;Boris;;;;COMS;Undergraduate;920630;;;8-402525-19906-7;1000
Feb 19, 1992, 2:18:29 PM2/19/92
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We have an 8mm drive that comes packaged with the 670Meg drive in the big
beige box. (Sorry for the lack of technical lingo) Anyway, I came into
work one day, and the tape drive was hung. The yellow light was on, and
whenever I tried to put a tape in, it spat it back out. We ended up rebooting
the system. Is there a way to avoid a reboot? I would imagine that doing
an L1-A and then turning the drive on and off might screw something up.
beige box. (Sorry for the lack of technical lingo) Anyway, I came into
work one day, and the tape drive was hung. The yellow light was on, and
whenever I tried to put a tape in, it spat it back out. We ended up rebooting
the system. Is there a way to avoid a reboot? I would imagine that doing
an L1-A and then turning the drive on and off might screw something up.
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- Boris
(co...@cs.ucsb.edu)
Bryan Costales
Feb 19, 1992, 3:08:21 PM2/19/92
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I have often L1-A'd sparcstations to unhang external SCSI hardware, be
it an Exabyte or a CD-ROM. Just turn the offending unit off and on again,
then type C on the Sun's console to continue. I have never had a bad
effect from this procedure.
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Bryan Costales - Systems Manager - International Computer Science Institute
Internet:(work) cost...@icsi.berkeley.edu (home) b...@lady.berkeley.edu
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