Thanks, Reid.
Both clients who have had this problem are using the MAXTAPEBUF option.
But, this doesn't happen most of the time, only periodically.  Now that I
look at it,
it appears all of the time, as:

NON DEFAULT MEDIA BUFFER SIZE BEING USED.
CURRENT MEDIA RECORD SIZE IS: 32768.

So, nevermind the initial question.  My next question is, why would the
drive not STORE
one day but do so fine other days.  The "going bad" explanation doesn't
explain, necessarily,
why a new drive would do this.  Could it be the media going bad?  (It could
be a new drive that
is not up to QA, but not likely.)  Thanks for your help.
James

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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] NON DEFAULT MEDIA BUFFER SIZE BEING USED.


> 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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>                       03/21/2006 05:07
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>                       Please respond to
>                       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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