[Info-vax] Exabyte tapes to disk

[Richard B. Gilbert]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <7eaf2ab1-64ff-45e7-9a2d-2c5378d3510b at k26g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, Chris <cdandrea27 at yahoo.com> writes:
>> 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?
> 
> The questions begging to be asked:
> 
> 1. How was the data stored on the Exabytes in the first place?
> [_] VMS Backup? [_] Something else?
> 
> 2. How are you "copying" the data from the Exabytes to disk?
> [_] VMS Backup? [_] Copy? [_] Byzantine Monks?
> 

Giggle!  I like your "Byzantine Monks"!