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From: woan@excelsior (Ronald S Woan)
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Subject: Re: Can the Risc-6000 8mm tape drive read Exabyte tapes?
Keywords: variable block mode
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Date: 9 Jan 91 17:59:20 GMT
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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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