SCSI Tape Drive 599-2081-01: What tapes?

I can find no documentation whatsoever on sun.com for the SCSI Tape Drive 599-2081-01. I'm thinking of buying this tape drive from a friend, but he doesn't know what tapes will work on it.
Will Exabyte 8mm 112metre tapes work, for instance? I already have some of them.
This is to work with an Ultra 10. I doubt an my old Adaptec 2940UW card will work with it... I'll have to get a PCI card that's suitable for Solaris 8.
Thanks!

I have one of these drives and currently use Exabyte 170m (Mammoth) tapes... they run about 50 bucks
and their part number is 312629...

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Thanks Jan.
Actually the reason to use Quantum SCSI tape recorder is to back-up big amount of data (propriety movies footage) both on PC (what is quite easy, using SCSII host adapter with VHDCI 68 connector) and iMac what seems to be not easy. All my search by Google leads to that conclussion, they finished production of SCSI-to-USB or FireWire because somebody stopped to produce chips to covert protocols. So even buying noe second-hand adapter, no guaranty it's still working with Lion (nobody is developing drivers anymore). Strange is, nobody or just a few are using SCSII (Ultra 320) devices (while the transfer is not bad, 320 MBps what is 2560 Mbps, so the only limitation is tape recording (some 80 MBps) not an interface. Using compression mode I can (and I do) record 1,6 TB of footage data. However quite slow, is safe and cheap, comparing with any HD storage solution. USB 2 is much more limited.
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