Goose, I tested the Dell PowerVault 120 tape machine, the one with the 40 GB tapes; it works, however could not access anything on the tapes themselves, either in Linux or Windows. Couldn't figure that out, so I'll leave that up to you, but the thing works. It holds 7 tapes total, 5 front accessible slots, two inside the machine (load from slots 1 and 2). There was also a cleaning tape in the machine as well. It also has one actual tape drive, but judging by the setup, it could have had two. I've also set aside a SCSI card and cable for the machine. Phil Goldbach "Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."