John,

Could be that it's just going bad, however I would be interested to know
whether or not the device is configured properly and whether or not you are
using the"maxtapebuf" option. Below is a portion of the store command help.

MAXTAPEBUF          Directs STORE to use the maximum available buffer
                    size during the store operation.  Currently, the
                    maximum tape buffer sizes for the following tape
                    drives are (in Kilobytes):

                    7974      16      7978B     32   DDS       32
                    7976      16      7979      32   MO        32
                    7978A     16      7980      32   3480      32
Regards,

Reid E. Baxter



                                                                                                                                       
                      James Dunlap                                                                                                     
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Hi,
Any idea what is actually happening when the MPE i/X STORE command issues

the above message on the SYSLIST and then the store does not progress?

A SHOWDEV <drive> shows the drive to be online and write enabled, as in:
 LDEV     AVAIL         OWNERSHIP         VOLID         DEN   ASSOCIATION

    7     AVAIL    (W)                    (Nolabel)     1600

My guess is the tape is bad, but thought I'd ask here if there is any oth
er
more experienced analysis available.  TIA.

Sincerely,
James Dunlap

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