Can the Risc-6000 8mm tape drive read Exabyte tapes?

[Ronald S Woan]

In article <9839 at ncar.ucar.edu>, fredrick at 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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