Fairlight-CMI

Hi James,

Hmmm, that's an interesting point, regarding pre/post waveform 
supervisor. Hopefully someone could enlighten or eliminate this 
possibility :-)

My primary hunch is head alignment, second is deteriorated tapes (or 
at least the dats on the tapes). If I could get hold of a list that 
details CMI errors, that would be helpful. Does anyone on this list 
have such a thing?

Cheers,
Peter

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, James Thomson 
<jamesthomson@m...> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
>  Could it be that the tapes were formatted and the sounds saved 
with a pre
> waveform supervisor CMI ? Maybe there was a change between the pre 
and post
> Waveform supervisor CMIs regarding the tape drive. Another idea 
may be that
> your tape drive is out of alignment with  the original tape drive 
that was
> used to save the sounds.
>  I am only making wild asumptions though ! Good luck!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James Thomson
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 25/9/05 18:35, "Peter" <PeterC@C...> wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > Just a follow up...
> > 
> > As none of the 30 tapes I was given are readable by my CMI, I 
tried
> > to write to one of them from my CMI, just to see if the tapes are
> > still functional.
> > 
> > The one I tried seems fine and I can successfully write to and 
from
> > (using TOTAPE & FROMTAPE commands. I wiped it too during totape 
(-
> > w)). No softerrors whatsoever. This tape, with contents from 
1988,
> > was previously giving an "Unexpected Tape Error 3) message, but 
as I
> > said it's now fine when formatted with my machine.
> > 
> > What does this mean?
> > 
> > 1) The oringal contents have deteriorated, but the tape is still
> > intact.
> > 2) The Streamer Heads need re-alligning (is this possible/easy to
> > do?).
> > 
> > ??????
> > 
> > I know these are not easy questions to answer, but if anyone can
> > shed any light or offer me guidance, that would be superb!
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Peter