Hypertape ?

[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

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Okay, I have a Hypertape 40 meg tape backup (uses DC2000 carts) and
just the other day the *one* tape I had that worked pooped out on me.

I'm using a GS ROM01 with a RamFast, which has the utils to work with a
tape drive, but see as far as I can tell this is like a One For All
remote:  I can get my box to play and record, I just can't set the
time cuz I lack that button.  In other words, I can't format a tape.

Inserting a new tape into the drive, it spins the tape and doesn't find
any "header" info.  The drive's light flashes.  But I have no way to
convince the drive to do something about it -- using the RamFast utils
results in I/O Error and Disk Not Found errors because (far as I can
guess) the computer can't talk to the drive once the drive has decided
that it can't work with the tape.  This is annoying as hell.  My q.:
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Any suggestions on how to convince the drive/computer to let me format
a tape?  Surely there's gotta be a way on the GS, like a util or...
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As far as I can tell, and I was going to do this yesterday on my dad's
computer but neither of us had a DB25-to-Cent50 onhand, arrrgh:  I have
the Hypertape utils disk for the Mac, and I'm assuming that it has the
secret ingredients to force a format (I lack docs, and the info file on
the disk says nothing about formatting); I need to find a Mac user so
that I can hitch up my wagon and have that machine do the work.  I know
a formatted tape *does* work properly on my GS, I'm okay from there.  I
live on the other side of the state from my family so I won't have the
let-his-Performa-perform-it option available to me for several months.
Have put out a local request for time with a Mac in the meantime.

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