NOW BRIAN !
Did it really eat the tape or just say pop of a foot or two from the
front ?
You wouldn't believe the amount of confetti that 1 ft. of 3590 can
make inside a drive !
Now, naturally IBM has a bunch of high dollar tools they'd like to
sell you to do this but....
Ya got the blue, can't remember the official name, plastic, loader
piece ?
Is some of the tape still hanging out of the cart ?
If not hold the tape in your left hand as you would a calculator with
the drive sprocket towards you and the write-lock on the lower left
and the tape exit port on the lower right. With the non-business end
of a pen, push in on the center lock button on the drive sprocket.
NOTE: you pen needs to be smaller than the hole around the drive
sprocket lock button. Now while still depressing the lock button
rotate/wiggle (as if drawing little o's / doodles / spiro-graph
action) in a counter clockwise direction the pen. As it wobbles in
the hole in the sprocket it should rotate the tape spool clockwise ie.
extending the tape out of the cart.
If the tape is already out of the cart you can lay it down with the
sprocket up, depress the lock with a pen, and pull out enough tape to
get by the damaged area.
NOTE: these tapes are mylar (sp?) and any little nick will result in a
complete tear! but it is extreamly tough so don't worry, just use
caution.
OK, back to the blue thingie...
The dowel that holds the tape in is semi-hard rubber... with the
business end of a pen, push it out of the blue loader piece. USE
CAUTION TO AVOID PERSONAL INJURY BY THE PEN !
Now set the cart in front of you to your left, tape exiting the bottom
right corner, sprocket away from you. ahhh see the picture below
+---------+ <-= cart
| |
| |
| | +- ---+--\
| / (tape) | U + \ <-= blue loader piece
+-------/______________________ +-----+ \ note orentation
Now just lay the tape over the loader piece, making sure the center
line of the tape and blue loader piece are as close to exact as you
can get it... then push the little rubber lock back down in the blue
loader piece which will secure the tape. (the U in the diagram
denotes location of the rubber lock piece)
OK, now to get the tape back in the spool/cart...
as before hold the tape in your left hand, sprocket facing towards
you, tape hanging down. Put the NON-business end of the ball-point
pen in the sprocket center hole depressing the lock pin. THIS TIME
draw your little o's with a clock-wise rotation and that will rotate
the spool counter-clock-wise thus pulling the tape back into the cart.
Then snap the blue thingie back in and pray !
The first operation I would try would be a move data !!!
but every tape I've done this to is still going strong
granted that is only 3 out of ??? 5,000
later,
Dwight
;-)
PS if all else fails IBM, for a price, can pull info off a trashed
tape but you have to send it off and I have no idea of the cost, only
the availability of the service.
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Subject: destroyed tape
Author: BRIAN.NICK (BRIAN_NICK AT phl DOT com) at unix,mime
Date: 8/25/98 1:45 PM
Hi all,
We just had a 3590 drive chew up a tape. Now here is the scenario. I
don't
believe that I can recover the data from this tape as it is a primary
storage
pool tape. We had just mounted the tape for BACKUP STGPOOL when the
3590 drive got hungry!! I think that I am out of luck as far as RESTORE
STGPOOL command as the tape had never been backed up. If someone
knows of a way to recover this tape PLEASE let me know any information
would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Brian
Brian Nick
Advisory Systems Analyst Storage Solutions
Phoenix Home Life Mutual Ins. Co.
(860) 403-2281
Brian_Nick AT PHL DOT COM
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