On 04/03/05 11:34 am Steven Levine tossed the following ingredients into 
the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

>  >I have taken a chance and purchased on eBay (for a mere $25) a Compaq
>  >169017-001 DDS-4 8-tape autoloader (relabeled Sony TSL-11000) that, by
>  >the seller's admission, displays the message "loader
becoming ready."
> 
> I guess my first question is what is displaying this message?  Does the
> unit have a display panel or did the vendor install the W2K backup
> package.
> 
>  >I've looked at the online user's manual, and this message is not
>  >mentioned there.
> 
> I would suspect this is a normal status message.  You will know soon
> enough.  I would expect a long timeout in the case since the operator
> might need to change loader casettes.

The drive arrived today, and when I opened up the case (it's an external 
model) I found that it had a magazine full of DDS4 tapes inside and the 
elevator (the mechanism that transfers tapes from the magazine to the 
drive and back) was stuck in front of the magazine preventing it from 
being ejected.

I managed to navigate the "Engrish" instructions for emergency ejection 
of tapes and magazines in the on-line Compaq manual, and now all seems 
to be hunky dory after an hour or so's fiddling.

This was one of my most successful eBay purchases ever: I paid more for 
an empty magazine than I did for this autoloader + magazine + 8 tapes.

-=-
Alan



 
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