I have a TK50 cartridge that I have been trying to read for some time, it keeps failing at a single point. I was once told that a TF series drive might be able to read past the error, but that TKs won't. I don't know how much truth there might be to it, but I have been trying to find a TF drive for a long time, they just don't seem to come up. Are they as rare as they seem? Regards Rob -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire Sent: 08 June 2012 08:57 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Introducing myself... and my little network On 06/08/2012 03:55 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: I haven't tried cleaning TK50 heads in years, but I will (now that I have a more respectable workspace) start trying that. I will let you know how things go. I'll probably start digging into those within the next month or two. Thank you for the suggestion! I take it TK50 tapes won't read in a later drive? They will. TK70 and TK85 (if I remember right) can both read TK50. You also have the TZ30 (I think the name is), which is a TK50 compatible, but smaller drive, with SCSI. The TK85 can read TK50s? I didn't know that! If that's the case, it's likely that the TF85 (DSSI version) may as well, and I have one of those. That may be one more option to get my huge pile of TK50s read. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA