Graw@UNCAMULT.BITNET (Pete Graw) (07/06/88)
Some time ago there were a few people asking about official bad tk50 tapes. We were able to get DEC to confirm that the follow tapes are bad, after much discussion: 1) Those labeled with 9174x or 9274x on the case and xx5x or xx0x on the spindle 2) Those labeled with 9180x or 9280x on the case and xx09x, xx09xx, xx10x, or xx10xx on the spindle The x's are don't cares :-) We were able to get this out of Dec after we approached them with the message from someone on the info-vax list from G.B. I believe who listed a few tapes. We had been having MANY problems with our uvax II TK50 drive and controller, and were on something like our 8th pair of controller/drive combinations when this message came along, just in time. They were ready to swap the whole machine. At the same time, they warned us about leaving tapes mounted overnight in the drive, seems it gums up the drive heads or something... They replaced 14 of our tapes without charge.