Amongst a box of Acorn floppies that I got hold of the other day I found several DC600 tape cartridges. I thought it might be useful to see if I can get any data off them (I have no idea what's on them, if they're still readable, or what format any data on them is in - I know, I know... :) Paths scribbled on some suggest they came from some variety of Unix machine, so chances are they're tar format. Now, in the loft I have a pair of Archive 5945C 60MB drives which I didn't have the heart to throw out. God knows if they work or not. I know, I know... They're QIC-36 interface drives apparently. This is where I do the hand-waving stuff as I start to get out of my depth (my only tape experience is with modern DLT and DAT drives) I happen to have a whole box of stray interface boards with SCSI at one end and various other interfaces at the other. Included in these are Adaptec 3530GA's and Emulex MW0210402's, both of which I think bridge SCSI to QIC-36. No, I don't know if *those* work either... Question is, are these boards interchangable? Or in order to stand a chance of reading these tapes, do I need to know what board was originally used (and even which drive!) in order to write them? Furthermore, just because the drive's then on the SCSI bus, can I expect it to just appear as a modern SCSI tape unit does (i.e. if I can drive a DLT or DAT drive from my Unix OS, should the same be true of these controller boards / ancient drives)? I have the Adaptec 3530A manual, which suggests it's just a plug in and go solution (but I have no idea how the GA series boards that I have differ from the A series) Thoughts welcome, before I go trying to cable everything up! cheers Jules