moving 0.25" tapes between sun and 3b2 (was: Re: Writing HP cartridge tapes on a Sun 3)

[Robert Claeson]

In article <2871 at ttrdc.UUCP>, levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:

> If you have the 60 MB SCSI drive (such as what the 3B2/600 has builtin, or
> available as a SCSI accessory for other 3B machines), tapes written on
> it are readable using /dev/[n]rst8 on a SUN with 0.25" cartridge tape drive
> and vice versa.  The 23 MB 3B2/400 streaming drive isn't compatible with
> anything on the SUN however.

Oh, I tried it with a 3b2/400. Thought the /400 and the /600 were
compatible.