problems with INITIALIZE MUC6: (TK50)

Geoff, thanks for your reply, but I don't want this to get down the TK50 vs. TK70 path. (I will even hold back my beliefs about whether CompacTape-II media is physically different from CompacTape media.) I do have a TK50 drive hanging off the TBK70 controller, which supposedly works (and it certainly does work to an extent.) I need to write a TK50 tape because I don't have a TQK70 controller for the uVAX-II for which I need this diagnostic tape that I'm trying to write. Any other ideas what might be wrong there? Or is it possible to increase the retry counter for VMS tape writing? NetBSD obviously gets by with those media errors because it simply retries it more often(?). thanks, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org