John Ryrie writes:

> We have an HP918DX with an internal DAT drive.
>
>  Some of our customers who are using HP917s for Y2K testing cannot read DATs
>  we create. I have placed a PICs call asking for an explanation, but in the
>  meantime... has anyone experienced this problem before and solved it?
>
>  I have tried turning off compression and not using ;TRANSPORT as a STORE
>  parameter without success.

I think everybody that has a 918DX has experienced this problem. Before we
make tapes, we now run this simple job:

/t compoff
FILE UNNUMBERED
/l all
    1     !job decomp,mgr.telesup/yourpassword,mpexl
    2     !devctrl 7 compression=disable
    3     !set stdlist=delete
    4     !file t;dev=7
    5     !eoj
/

Wirt Atmar