[skinneej]

Hadn't used my R300 home deck in awhile... plugged it in the other night to check out some old recordings and maybe transfer a few. Popped in a DAT, spot checked a few sound samples (it played fine), rewound the tape, and when it rewound the beginning of the DAT, I went to eject the tape and all of a sudden got a "CAUTION" error message...

now the tape is stuck in there.. cant eject it, cant play it, cant fwd/rew... nothing is spinning or moving. It just powers on with a "CAUTION" message.

I popped open the cover of the machine, the top of the tape "shell" is still open and the actual tape is still positioned through all the rollers inside.

never had any problems with the machine, but like i said hadnt used it in awhile.

any ideas what to do?