Al,
thank you putting so much effort into reading these old Tapes. Really appreciate it. Sven On 07/13/2018 06:35 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > Man, these things are annoying. > > All of the bands are bad, and they leave residue on the spools. > There are no EOT BOT holes on the HP tape, and the drive locks > the cartridge until you 'unload' it, which spins to the EOT soft > region. Well, guess what, they leave the tape in a position where > the residue ends up near the last block on the track, so it will > read track 1 (4mb), or maybe 1-3 (12mb), then fail when it hits > the gunk. > > You DON'T want to bake that gunk on! It is possible to remove it > but DO NOT EVER USE ALCOHOL ON A QIC TAPE! It instantly takes off > the binder. Water-based cleaner (like whiteboard cleaner) seems to > work but it is extremely difficult to work with the tape and not > damage it. > > My sympathies to anyone having to deal with recovery of this media. >