On Wed, 11 Feb 2015, Peter Lothberg wrote: Looks like I'm gonna need a low-level SCSI driver patch to copy 'em then, no? What exactly are we trying to do here? What do we have and what kind of result are we expecting?! Image the boot drive from a CompuServe SC-40. I also assumed it was a T20 system, there is also T10 stuff. It was running the CompuServe monitor. Ahhh. That's based on really old T10 stuff. So it's 576 or 2304 byte sectors. I guess this is a IBM drive (0666)? If it does not spin up- hit it on the side.. (You can have a BIG drive or a 3.5 in drive..) Fotnote on the SC40. The "other" SCSI connectors can use 512b sector disks, the microcode on the chanels will flip things. But it can't boot from them.. Someone else to explain what it takes for Unix or any other OS to read something other than 512Byte sectors. The SCSI protocol don't care, so maybe a program reading a block at the time and write it to 512b blocks and pad the last one? I belive I could mount the file-system and make a T10 backup tape from T10. Let me knew if I can be of any help, and don't loose the bits.. -P