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

[floppy]

If your drive is dead, I would like to buy it (few money). Why buying a dead cassette player? Hide that stuff in the picture in it (for fun; no 100% necessity).

And: if your cassette recorder is dead, just use a PI2 with USB Stick on it instead of buying another on eBay (like in the picture; hopefully you have a pilbox and an HP-IL module).

Update: see link https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-19053.html

[Leviset]

What’s a ‘P12 with USB attached please?

[ThomasF]

(02-14-2024 05:22 PM)Leviset Wrote:  What’s a ‘P12 with USB attached please?

A Raspberry Pi 2, which runs an emulation of HP-IL, and you could then use a USB disk as a cassette drive.

See i.e. here for more info:
https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-19053.html

Cheers,
Thomas

[knife31]

Don't think I'm ready to give up the ghost yet, cuz I have a perfectly good "PPC Journl PGMS V9&10 1984, cassette" that I would like to use (Along with a bunch of others). Hopefully I won't have to buy a new drive. I will look into the P12.
PS: It's nice to have folks you can ask questions!
RH

[cruff]

There's one for sale in the Classified section.

[rprosperi]

(02-14-2024 10:03 PM)knife31 Wrote:  Don't think I'm ready to give up the ghost yet, cuz I have a perfectly good "PPC Journl PGMS V9&10 1984, cassette" that I would like to use (Along with a bunch of others). Hopefully I won't have to buy a new drive. I will look into the P12.
PS: It's nice to have folks you can ask questions!
RH

If you can't get it working, I'd be happy to extract the files from the tape and copy them to a LIF volume file you can access via ILPer/PIL-Box. I'd probably be willing to do several, but that depends on how many "a bunch" means.

Contact me by email to follow-up if interested.

[knife31]

I think that one was for parts but will look again. Going to do a bit of research. The machine worked not too long ago so can't think of why it would not work now. May be that for some reason the HP-IL has been told to ignore it.
Weird I used the Cat 7 function of the CCD Mod and it worked. Tried the DIR function of the HP-IL and it does nothing. This is going to be a deep Rabbit-Hole.

[knife31]

Stranger still now it works with the DIR command and either works correctly or shows "Drive Error or Medm Err" depending on the tape (Randomly it seems). I guess I will have to check out the tapes using the stuff I read in the forums. I did have to fix the PPC Tapes felt and it read it, once at least.

[knife31]

Oh
Mr Prosperi thanks for the offer.
Randy

[cruff]

Have you cleaned the tape head itself?

[knife31]

I did clean the heads

It reads other tapes so it must be just this tape. Of course it would be the PPC Module Tape. I saw a wrinkle in the tape, not sure how to get it out.
Randy