I saw some conversation going by in here recently about Exabyte drives, only the numbers don't sound anything like what I have, which is marked "Model: HH CTS". There are all sorts of other numbers on there, for various aspects of it. There are two of them, and this was a part of a whole IBM SSA system that I've been dealing with bits of here. Pushing open the little door I see something that sure looks like a helical-scan head, though somewhat smaller than the one normally seen in a VCR. I'm told that these hold 20G on a tape. The guy I got 'em from unfortunately doesn't have any tapes to go along with them. One of those tapes would back up pretty much of what I have on my LAN here, or whole machines, as they sit. I'm guessing that the interface I'll be looking at after I take it off of the current mounting plate will be SCSI-wide, like the CD drives and some of the other stuff I have with it. Does anybody have any tapes that will work on these, or can any of you guys point me toward where I could get a hold of some without getting into crazy expense? I'd sure like to make some backups with one of these units. Think I can get 'em going under linux? :-) -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin