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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!ais.org!jfk
- From: jfk@ais.org (Jim Knight)
- Subject: Re: Dat woes....
- Message-ID: <jfk.726810794@ais.org>
- Organization: UMCC
- References: <1993Jan12.022338.1888@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:53:14 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- mlbelan@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Mark Belangee) writes:
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- >We've got a DAT that absolutely refuses to be ejected. Without taking my
- >needlenosed pliers to it, can anyone offer a good suggestion for getting
- >it out of my HP 735?
-
-
- The Newer DAT mechanisms have an auto unjam feature. Hold the eject button
- in continuously for 10-20 seconds. The tape should eject, other than that,
- things get pretty messy. Btw, many jams seem to be caused by tapes that
- are not wound tightly.
-
- Jim
-