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Article #11344Re: reading Exabyte tapes on other systems
From: Ruth Milner, Systems Manager x27...
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1989 10:41
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1989 10:41
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In v7n153, Bob Cunningham (bob@loihi.hig.hawaii.edu) asks >Assuming same vendor, same SunOS version, can I take a tape written on one >Exabyte drive and read it on another reliably? If you are using the same controller, driver, and OS version on both systems, there should be no reason at all why you can't exchange tapes. The only other thing you might have to watch out for is PROM revs. in the drive and on the controller (if it has its own). We have an Exabyte on our Sun 4 (OS 3.2FCS) daisy-chained off the 1/4" tape and using the Sun SCSI driver, and another Exabyte on a uVAX-II running VMS 4.7. We have found that data written onto the tape on the Sun by Fortran programs can be read by programs on the VAX when it is loaded there. No guarantees, but it's worked for us :-). Ruth Milner Systems Manager University of Toronto Physics sysruth@helios.physics.utoronto.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: SYSRUTH@utorphys.bitnet (Ruth Milner, Systems Manager x2746) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: reading Exabyte tapes on other systems Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <8902231906.AA16828@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Date: 7 Mar 89 10:41:49 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 22 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 14:05 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 185, message 4 of 17