  DLT Parity Errors? 
 The Question is:
 
I have some brand-new never out of the box DLT IV tapes.  On my TZ887
connected to an SCSI card in an OpenVMS 7.1-2 system, I get "parity errors"
when trying to initialize. (Either with or without the density override
switch).
 
If I use a Quantum 4700 on a Solaris system to write to the tapes first, (a)
the solaris system doesn't complain and (b) I can then write to them on the
OpenVMS system.
 
This is really pain.  How can I can I get the OpenVMS system to just write
to the tapes?
 
 
 The Answer is:
 
  OpenVMS is not particularly involved in the generation of parity errors
  and merely reports those that it encounters -- it would appear to be a
  hardware problem, or questionable media, or media that is already
  initialized at a density incompatible with that of the drive in use.
 
