My tape drive was an Archive with a QIC24 interface.
Be very careful about the tapes.
It may be a tape issue and not a drive issue.
Old data tapes can get the tape layer stuck together etc.
I've spoken to a data recovery place here in Australia.
They advise that they bake the tapes before data recovery to stop oxide shedding.
They also change the rubber drive band inside the data cartridge itself before running it.
Regards,
David Crocombe.
On Thu Nov 18 11:59 , Steve Rance sent:
I’m pretty sure it was an Emulex …
Easy to remove if you can use a screw driver, but you do need to remove the complete disk/tape housing.
[Steve]
From: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of karmagician
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:52 PM
To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Fairlight-CMI] What company brand is the streaming tape drive in the III?
Does anyone know what the brand of the streaming tape drive in the series III was?
Is it easy to remove? (before I start to take the thing apart...)
As I mentioned in another message, having problems with it - I found a place that supposedly repairs all kinds of tape drives, but you need to know the brand to get a quote...:
http://www.toptenrepair.com/Storage.213.0.html