Can Xenix read Sun 1/4" tapes ?

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <6 at bronson.UUCP>, tan at bronson.UUCP (Tan Bronson) writes:
>     I've been able to write tapes which the Suns can read, but not
> visa versa. I've got a Bell Technologies XTC controller and board
> using the standard xenix tape drivers, and am running 2.3.3

>     Is there some combination I have not tried yet?

The Bell Tech drive (I assume you are using the 60 meg version) uses the
QIC-24 data format on the tape.  For a sun 3 this format is read/written
on the /dev/rst8 port.

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