[Info-vax] Exabyte tapes to disk

[Chris]

We have 8mm exabyte tapes with archived data on them. Our old vax
machines could read/write these tapes with no problem with exabyte
tape drives (SCSI connection). We would like to get the data off of
these tapes and eventually onto disks (so that the data is more easily
accessible, don't have to mess with tape drives etc.). However,
whenever we use our vax to copy the data to disk, the files are not
readable by other machines (e.g. there is a bunch of garbage before
the data). We have been unable to find a way to use any other machine
to copy the data from the tape to disk. Has anyone had any success
with something like this? What worked?

Thanks for all your help,
Chris