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- From: reiniger@ug.cs.dal.ca (Darren Reiniger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Mountain Tape problem
- Keywords: 8000Plus Internal Tape, error #4016
- Message-ID: <BruDHo.J2v@cs.dal.ca>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 12:32:11 GMT
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- I'm having a problem getting a tape drive to work in my machine, and I'm
- hoping someone here could lend some advice.
- It's a Mountain 8000Plus Internal tape drive, connected to a floppy
- controller. The computer is a 386-20Mhz clone, with a Seagate Hard Drive,
- and a Syquest drive. Other cards in the machine are a Western Digital
- ethernet card, and a HP SCSI scanner card. The A drive is a 1.2 M 5.25"
- drive, and the B is a 1.44 M 3.5" drive.
-
- The tape drive is connected fine (or so it seems), and the CHKTAPE
- program reports no errors. However, when I try to format a tape, it works
- for a minute or so, then gives an error #4016, which says to remove
- any TSR's, change a few settings via the software, and try the process
- again without the B: drive connected.
-
- When I then remove the tape, it is all chewed up! This has happened to
- 3 tapes so far (and at $40/each, it isn't fun). Of course, I booted
- from vanilla DOS (it's MS-DOS 5.0), and have taken out the B: drive,
- but still the same problem.
-
- Anybody have a similar experience which may help me.
-
- Thanks,
- Darren
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- Darren Reiniger reiniger@ug.cs.dal.ca
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