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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: swapping tapes between Suns and DECstations
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.135352.27344@erbe.se>
Date: 15 Jan 91 13:53:52 GMT
References: <25456@adm.brl.mil>
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In article <25456@adm.brl.mil>, karl@forest.gsfc.nasa.gov (karl anderson) writes:

|> It seems that there is no standard format for 8mm tapes, so that
|> an 8mm tape written on, say, a DECstation 5000 cannot be read on 
|> a Sun and vice versa.

No. There are two standard formats, but Sun's driver can only handle one
of them.

|> I think 1/4" formats are more standardized (QIC and all that). Am I right
|> - can a 1/4" tape written with tar, cpio, dd or dump on a DECStation be
|> read on a Sun?

Yes, but you'll have to find a DECstation with a standard QIC drive first.
All DECstation's I've seen comes with drives for DEC's very own TK50/TK70
cartridges.

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