Spanning 8mm tapes for a large archive

I am looking for some insight on how to span tapes for very large archives. I am using Solaris 8. The tape drive commands seem very limited as do the error messages returned upon a failure.

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I really don't want to have to purchase any additional equipment.
You may have to.
To get your Sony Hi8 video into iMovie, look at the Canopus ADVC300. Audio and Video go in, FireWire comes out. It also comes with a nice Macintosh application that works flawlessly with iMovie 06 and iDVD 08/09 (I have used it a few times with iMovie 08 and 09).
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