Re: [Networker] Removing stuck tape from Exabyte 8505 drive

Richard,

A Sun C.E. showed me this little trick (we have 2 Sun-badged EXB-440s):

1. Power the jukebox off.
2. Press the eject button on the front of the tape drive and keep holding it in.
3. While holding the eject button, power the jukebox back on.

When the jukebox starts up with the return of power, the tape should eject from
the drive, unless it is hopelessly entangled.

If you jukebox is in a cabinet, you will obviously need somebody to assist you,
as the power switch is on the back of the jukebox and most people do not have
arms that are 2 metres long!    :-)

Regards,

Peter Marshall


Quoting Richard Spitz <richard.spitz AT ANA.MED.UNI-MUENCHEN DOT DE>:

> Hi Networkers,
>
> not exactly a Networker question, but since there is also a lot of
> hardware expertise in this forum:
>
> I have a failed Exabyte EXB-440 jukebox with two Exabyte 8505 8mm
> drives (5GB + compression). Looks like it is totally gone, it doesn't
> even boot after power on, power is ok though. It is very old and not
> worth while repairing.
>
> However, there still are tapes stuck in the drives. The Exabyte
> knowledge base refers to a "tape extraction procedure" for this
> type of drive, but I wasn't able to find this procedure on the
> site. Can anybody help me extract those tapes? Pressing the
> eject button is useless, there are two LEDs lit up constantly:
> upper orange, lower green, middle (green) is off.
>
> Regards, Richard
>
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