9 Track Tape Drive Interface Variants

Hi. Got a PDP-11/34 today. It came with a RK05, a Tektronix 4012 + hard copy unit and a Western Peripherals TC-130 9 track tape controller. Unfortunately I had to leave the actual tape drive behind. No space left on /dev/car and way to heavy for my herniated intervertebral disk... The tape drive was some kind of Cipher 800/1600 BPI drive. There was printed "MOD NO 0920640-1250U" on it. I couldn't find anything usefull on the net with this information. Now the problem: I own a Cipher 880 9 track tape with Pertec interface. It works well on my QBus VAXen and the PDP-11/73. So I am used to the 2 x 50 pin cables / connectors found along the Pertec interface. But the TC-130 tape controller has one 50 pin cable labeled "control", a 26 pin cable labeled "read" and a 26 pin cable labeled "write". There are two connector adapters to adapt the 26 pin cables to 36 pin connectors. I found the TC-130 manual on bitsavers. From a quick look at the signal names the interface of the TC-130 is not Pertec. But what else? Is there any way to connect the TC-130 to my Cipher 880? -- \end{Jochen} \ref{http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/}