It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/sxl168 on 2024-10-11 19:55:52.

I'm checking to see if maybe someone might have a solution to my IBM Full Height SCSI drive issue. I don't think there is any kind of hardware problem as using the IBM ITDT software, the drive will load and eject tapes fine when commanded to and the eject button works fine. What happens is that when pushing a tape into the drive, it will not automatically pull the tape in and spool. Same with eject, it will unspool but the tape will sit there until the eject button is pressed or the eject command given in ITDT. The drive was probably in a library and some kind of mode was set on the drive and I don't know how to get it out of that mode.