I've got this Exabyte 8900 drive currently listed for sale: https://www.ebay.com/itm/403940369941
Unfortunately I could not find a tape to do at least rudimentary testing. If you're interested, I'll give you a much better price in a direct sale. Contact me privately and I can provide more information about the drive and try to test it. Sellam On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 11:09 AM Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 11/10/22 12:18, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > > Indeed. I have a Cybernetics 8505 in the shed, I was just > > looking at it and wondering if it still worked. > > > > What tends to go on these things? Rubber in there, > > capstains, etc? > > > > Clearly, rubber rollers go bad, but there seems to be > > something else going on, because when ours went bad, they > > would start blinking LEDs without any movement of stuff > > inside. So, some of the chips failed internal self-test. > > Or, that's how I remember it. > Jon > > >
