Hardware, SparcStation1's & Exabyte 8mm tape drives

[bob at morningstar.com]

|  From: greg at parsys.co.uk (Greg Robertson)
|
|  Does anyone know why Exabyte drives aren't supported in
|  SunOS4.0.3c?

Sun didn't think anybody would want to put an Exabyte on a SparcStation,
so they didn't stick the driver in the sun4c distribution.

|  Are they supported in SunOS4.1c ?  Are they even supported in
|  SunOS4.1 ?

There's no SunOS 4.1c - it's all called 4.1, with qualifications for the
kernel architecture.  That is, my tapes say either "4.1 Sun-4c" or "4.1
SunOS Sun-4".  The 4.1 mtio(4) manual page lists "8mm Cartridge Tape" as a
supported medium, with no qualifications for the host architecure.