Re: PR 22160

On 12/31/22 18:31, David Holland wrote:
> I came across PR 22160 today because it had been in feedback since
> 2008. Apparently on 1.6.1 in 2003, a SCSI TK50 tape drive wasn't
> working.
> 
> In the interests of not leaving it just hanging around forever:
> 
> (1) Does anyone have one of these so they can test the current
> situation?
> 
> (2) Does anyone have any of these at all? That is, if it is still
> broken (there's no particular reason I know of to think it's been
> fixed), is it something someone might pick up on ebay and want to have
> work, or are they rare and/or all likely to have failed and been
> junked?
> 
> We have increasingly many PRs of this type hanging around and it's not
> clear at what point they should transition from "leave it open so
> anyone who picks up the HW and tries to use it has a chance of finding
> it" to "close it because it will never be resolved".
> 
> 
> (please leave me on Cc: on responses I ought to see, as I'm not
> subscribed and will forget to go look later)

   We have several drives in this category at LSSM, and I have a bunch 
personally.  We can probably help with this.

   Is there any info about what specific drive model someone had a 
problem with?  TK50-Z, TZ30,

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA