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Hi Chris, On testing more carefully, it looks like the HDF5 known-problems web page is correct, that the bug they describe is only a problem when creating a netCDF-4 file with a data object that has more than 8 attributes on a big-endian platform, such as Sparc or Power6/AIX. Creating such a file on a little-endian platform and then reading it on a big-endian platform worked fine for me this morning, using HDF5-1.8.4. --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: SRY-526862 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed