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HP82161A Digital Cassette Drive
02-14-2024, 12:19 AM
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HP82161A Digital Cassette Drive
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.
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02-14-2024, 01:44 PM (This post was last modified: 02-14-2024 06:48 PM by floppy.)
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RE: HP82161A Digital Cassette Drive
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


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02-14-2024, 05:22 PM
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What’s a ‘P12 with USB attached please?

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02-14-2024, 05:52 PM
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(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

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Thomas

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02-14-2024, 10:03 PM
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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!
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02-15-2024, 01:50 AM
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There's one for sale in the Classified section.
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02-15-2024, 01:56 AM
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(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.

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02-15-2024, 04:23 AM
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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.
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02-15-2024, 04:36 AM
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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.
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02-15-2024, 04:39 AM
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Oh
Mr Prosperi thanks for the offer.
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02-16-2024, 01:14 AM
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Have you cleaned the tape head itself?
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02-16-2024, 05:23 AM
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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.
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