Exabyte tapes incompatible from 3.5 to 4.0?

[Celeste C. Stokely]

Like everyone else, I want to buy an Exabyte tape drive. A vendor just
told me of a hitch, though. He says that tapes written under any driver
he's found for SunOS 3.5 can NOT be read under SunOS 4.0!!!!! It has
something to do with fixed length records being written under 3.5, and
variable length records being written under 4.0.

For us, this absolutely won't do. We won't be running 4.0 for many, many
months. Is he making this up? Is there a driver for this tape drive I can
get from somewhere that will solve this problem? Is this just another bad
dream?

All help greatly appreciated.

..Celeste Stokely
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