First post, by keenerb
I've got some 15 - 18 year old DDS3 tapes with at the very least some photo archives and a file server backup, taken by a Linux system (probably Mandriva, not that it matters.)
I've got the COmpaq DDs3 tape drive that they were created with.
I have a 50 pin ribbon cable and an adaptec AVA-1505/1515 and an adaptec SCSI-AT card (both ISA), the latter is what I used initially to set this up.
My question is what's the best way to connect this old 50-pin SCSI drive to a pc to read this data? Can I pick up a usb to scsi cable and a few interface adapters expect it to work with a modern linux distro? Should I pick up a PCI scsi card? Should I set up one of my old Pentium 300 boxes, install the SCSI card, and try to get a linux distro old enough that it'll work on it?