john@achilles.ua.oz (John Warburton) (11/15/90)
From article <1182@cameron.egr.duke.edu>, by jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger): > WATCH OUT!! Make sure that any 3rd party tape you buy will work on an > RS6000! As it turns out, IBM uses their own firmware in their 8mm drive > so a "standard" 8mm drive will *not* work. Whether this will be fixed > in later revisions of AIX (it supposedly worked in earlier revisions), > I don't know. > > The moral of this story is that you can't expect your Sun's SCSI 8mm > drive to work from an RS6000. > I tried to send this before, but I don't think it made it... I am moving from a site that is running SUNOS and has an exabyte tape drive to a RS6000 (with exabyte) only site. I was wondering if a tape written on the SUNOS exabyte would be readable by the RS6000 exabyte?? Does anyone have any experience with this, ie what format (tar, dd etc) ?? thanks in advance John John Warburton Phone : +61 8 228 5583 Department of Computer Science Telex : UNIVAD AA89141 University of Adelaide Fax : +61 8 223 1206 GPO Box 498 Adelaide SA 5001 ACSnet : john@cs.ua.oz