Art writes:
> Their position is that it is more cost effective to replace
> the drives than to bother with diagnosis time....bear in mind one of these
> drives was replaced by HP only 26 days ago!!!!

Hope you remember the serial number from the drive that was replaced 26 days
ago so you can make sure they aren't giving you that drive back again :-)

>    Add the fact that the drives were reporting that tapes were loaded and
> write enabled when there were no tapes in there... and you have a
> situation!

A situation which, as John pointed out, has existed since the dawn of MPE.
Insert a tape and eject it, and you'll see that :SHOWDEV still thinks it is
there.  So unfortunately :SHOWDEV is relatively useless as a tool for
automating things.

G.

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