>        This causes a 'Block size is 32768 bytes not 131072 bytes. Verify
the device configuration. Tape position by record is disabled.'

If this was a pure block size configuration issue, wouldn't this be saying
65535 bytes, not 32768? Whatever other problems you have in this
environment, this machine is reading back something from the tape that it
doesn't think it put there. This indicates some kind of corruption.

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