Sony TSL300C Illegal Cassette Config

Posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 by Nicki

One of the tapes in our tapeset failed, and a new one was labelled. This is where the trouble started.


As soon as the magazine is inserted into the drive, it scans all the tapes. Every time it gets to the position where the new tape is located, it ejects the magazine with a "Illegal Cassette Config" error together with flashing indicator for the position where the tape was located. I searched on Google, and could not find anything. That usually spells trouble. I grabbed an old tape, as well as a new one and a cleaning tape.

After inserting the new (unlabelled as in sticker on the tape) tape into the drive, it loaded. Then we had a look at the other new tape we tried to load, and realised that we had used the bigger sticker label instead of the narrow one, and it covered some indentations obviously necessary for the tape to be detected. After replacing the label with the correct one, all was well.

A huge relief when I was prepared for a good couple of hours...

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