Issues with an Exabyte 8200 Drive

Greetings

I have an older Exabyte 8200 tape drive connected to one my Linux boxes
(RH 7.2 2.4.9-31 Kernel). The drive appears to work fine if I write a
tape on it and then read it back.

Unfortunately, I also have some older tapes written ON THAT DRIVE, on an
old SunOS system that is no longer operational. I am unable to read
those tapes.

From /var/log/messages:

kernel: st3: Incorrect block size.
kernel: st3: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x0).

I strongly suspect a mismatch in block size, density, etc., to be the
cause of this, but no combination of options I have tried has helped. I
have tried to make sense out of the mt and st man pages, but without
some idea as to what the various options should (or may) be set at I am
having no success. In particular, I any attempt to use the mt stoptions
or related commands just makes things worse.

Anybody got any pointers on making this work?

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