Professional tape drive service

[Stewart Stremler]

begin repeating what Darrel Lawrence wrote on Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:03:46AM -0800 :
> I have an Ultra-Sparc with a DDS-3 tape drive that's starting
> to act a little flakey.  I've been running an archive through it
> lately, so i think it might just need a good professional cleaning/
> lube job/whatever.  Does anybody know a good place to get something
> like this done?  

No, but I would be interested in the topic, as we have a DDS-{1,2,3}
here at work. When they get flaky, we just blast 'em with compressed
air, and then run a cleaning tape thru 'em a dozen times.  Most of
the time that seems to work.

-Stewart "SPARCs are nice" Stremler