fredrick@acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick) (01/09/91)
This is another candidate for an FAQ posting; but can the internal 8mm tape
drive on a Risc-System 6000 read an Exabyte tape written from another
machine such as a Sun? If so, what do I need to do to get it to work? Or
do I have to buy a tape drive from Exabyte and try to attach it to our
POWERserver 530? We are running AIX3.1 3003 by the way. Thanks in advance.
--Tim
Tim Fredrick National Center for Atmospheric Research
Atmospheric Chemistry Division
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fredrick@ncar.CSNET Boulder, CO 80307woan@excelsior (Ronald S Woan) (01/10/91)
In article <9839@ncar.ucar.edu>, fredrick@acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick) writes:
Tim> This is another candidate for an FAQ posting; but can the
Tim> internal 8mm tape drive on a Risc-System 6000 read an Exabyte
Tim> tape written from another machine such as a Sun?
Someone said a while back to go into SMIT and change the device
characteristics for the drive to use block length 0 (variable blocks)
to read tapes created on other systems that seem to use this variable
block length by default.
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