Non-IBM 8mm Exabyte on RS/6000???

[Vic Abell]

In article <1990Aug28.175456.24603 at cimage.com>, brian at cimage.com (Brian Kelley/1000000) writes:
> 
> Has anyone tried to plug a non-IBM supplied Exabyte into an RS/6000?
> Should this work?   Is there anything special about IBM's Exabytes? 

A recent posting (From someone at IBM, I believe) reported that the IBM 8mm
tape drive, while manufactured by Exabyte, has a special PROM.