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From: jhp%oasis3@sand.UUCP (Jim Patterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: exabyte tape weirdness
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Date: 28 Feb 91 23:34:00 GMT
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I just installed an Exabyte tape on my PI (4D/25, 3.3.1).  The tape
came from a 3rd party vendor. It works just fine with all the SGI tape
utilities (bru, tar, etc).

I have noticed one very strange thing.  When I read a tape generated
on two different (non SGI) systems the data comes in byte swapped.
Tapes that are written on the SGI also appear to be byte swapped on
the other system.

Does anybody have any idea what is going on?  Is there some
configuration switch I need to use to make the tapes compatible
between the two systems ?

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Jim Patterson
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