IN SYSDIAG you will find a utility called SCSIDDS
if you are on a > 4.0 version of MPE/ix you will have to call HP for the
password.

run scsidds;section=50;ldev=#

This utility will allow you to display the usage and error logs for the
media.
This will probably help to determine if it is the media or the drive.

I have repeatedly suggested that STORE have a TAPELOG parameter to display
these
logs after each media usage.

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> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Bad tape media
> Date: Monday, January 13, 1997 9:22 AM
>
> For the second time in less than one month I got paged by our backup job
> with an error.  In each case the problem was with a different tape drive
but
> in both cases an 120M DDS2 tape was involved.  The error messages on the
> console were:
> MPE XL Status: Subsystem 113, error -44
> The media on device 'xx' is bad
>
> These were the first 'media' errors since we got these systems, almost 2
> years ago.  We started using the DDS2 tapes, sparingly, in the last few
> months and having two errors in a month makes me wonder if there may be
> something inherently wrong with the 120M DDS2 tapes or just with our
batch.
>
> Any similar experiences?
>
> Regards
>
> Paul H. Christidis