[Info-vax] Modern VMS (e.g. V8.4) tape installation?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 4/29/2012 10:09 AM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>> Would a DDS tape also do, provided it could be prepared
>> accordingly?
>> (related to the other thread on the MV2000)
>
>     Also "do" what, exactly?  I seem to remember doing
> Standalone BACKUP using an Exabyte 8mm (8200?) tape drive
> (probably on a VAX 4000 model 300), but I wouldn't bet on a
> MicroVAX/VAXstation 2000 working with any tape drive other
> than a TK50Z-FA/GA.

ISTR that most, if not all, of those "cartridge" tape drives were "high
maintenance".  The 8mm tapes were really high maintenance.