Tape imaging

[aswood at t-online.de]

I successfully took a (factory new) DEC TSZ07 SCSI tape drive into operation using a Sun SS20 and a Linux box.

Now I do have a big pile of CDC, DEC, HP, Convex and IBM tapes and I'd like to create tape images to file to save the tapes content.

What is the to be preferred procedure to image the tapes, which software to use and which kind of format to store the images?

-- Andreas