HP82161A Digital Cassette Drive

[knife31]

I am having trouble getting the Drive to be recognized by the HPIL Loop. The cables are good and it sees my printer which works fine. The drive worked a couple of months ago, so not sure what the problem is.

I tried running the DIR, STOPIO, and AUTOIO commands and the drive does nothing. Cleaned the connectors just in case. When a tape is inserted the drive rewinds the tape to the beginning.
Any help would be appreciated.
Randy