ADAT "no good TC" Error 7 issue

[NoFO]

OK, so i have not worked with ADATs in about 4 years, and I got an XT-20, and it was working great. Then some hiccups started happneing and so I thought, well, I'll clean the heads.

I happened to see on Musicians Friend that they had a head cleaning tape for ADATs. I called them up and asked if they wre positive that this product would not hurt my equipment. They said "of course not, that's why we sell it." I had usually manually cleaned them myself, but this was not a black face, a little different, so I thought, "what the hey" and I ordered it.

Well, I put I followed the directions, it did it's thing, now, i cannot get anything but "no good tc" and "error 7" messages. I called MC and they told me to contact the manufacturer, but the manufacturer (this should have tipped me off to begin with) did not have any contact info. I went ahead and did a manual cleaning myself, and it's still not working. So now I'm screwed.

Any hints before I pay big bucks to take it to a repair facility?

Thanks

Chris

[Blue Bear Sound]

"NoFo" could be a symptoms of many issues - as simple as a worn idler wheel (which is supposed to be changed twice a year), or problems with the linear head, or anything in between.

Send it off to Stan Jacox at the Studio Maintenance Centre.... excellent facility and very good pricing.

[muttley]

In the back of the owners manual, there is a list of what the error messages mean, I know that no-fo means " not formatted".
If you want I can look it up, post tomorrow the meaning, don't give up on it, these things are a little more rugged than credited for.


da MUTT

[Blue Bear Sound]

Well - yes - if you put an unformatted tape in - it will show NoFo....

But seeing the indicator when a formatted tape is in the unit CAN be a symptom of a variety of issues, some being user-maintainable, others not.