I seem to be having issues with my tape drives.  I have two tape drives,
both of which give this below after several minutes in:

sysgen> TA
        **error** error writing file TAPEIPL.MPEXL.SYS onto boottape
         UNIT FAILURE  (FSERR 30)
 
+-F-I-L-E---I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N---D-I-S-P-L-A-Y+
!  FILE NAME IS SYSGTAPE                         !
!  FOPTIONS: NEW,BINARY,FORMAL,U,NOCCTL,FEQ      !
!            NOLABEL                             !
!  AOPTIONS: OUTPUT,NOMR,NOLOCK,DEF,NOBUF        !
!            NOMULTI,WAIT,NOCOPY                 !
!  DEVICE TYPE: 24     DEVICE SUBTYPE: 7         !
!  LDEV: 7        DRT: 7         UNIT: 0         !
!  RECORD SIZE: 8192   BLOCK SIZE: 8192  (WORDS) !
!  EXTENT SIZE: 0      MAX EXTENTS: 0            !
!  RECPTR: 3           RECLIMIT: 0               !
!  LOGCOUNT: 3            PHYSCOUNT: 3           !
!  EOF AT: 0           LABEL ADDR: %00000000000  !
!  FILE CODE: 0        ULABELS: 0                !
!  FILE OWNER:                                   !
!  PHYSICAL STATUS: 0000000100000001             !
!  ERROR NUMBER: 30    RESIDUE: 0                !
!  BLOCK NUMBER: 3            NUMREC: 1          !
+------------------------------------------------+

        **error** Tape command failed. SYSGEN tape is NO GOOD!

After trying multiple tapes in both drives (which are both SCSI attached),
and rebooting the drives/system several times, it just seems that I am sunk.
Both drives are OLD, and are configured as HPC1521B.  I have used them in
the distant past, and they are OK.

Wyell Grunwald

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