On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:43:44AM +0000, Steve Harris wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:07:33 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 09:48 -0500, Timothy Alan Gorman wrote: > > > Just wondering if anyone has ever used a dds2 or 3 drive for audio dat... > > > is there any software available to do this? I have a drive and would > > > like to try it. > > > > > > > I tried this once and it didn't work. But I didn't try very hard. IIRC > > some drives can do it, some can't. > > Thats right, also, some OSs, I'm not sure its ever been possible on linux, > but it was on IRIX. Yes, I've done this on Linux before. You have to have a drive that has audio-capable firmware. See here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adrian.rixon/personal/ade/dat-dds/index.html http://www.trygve.com/playaudiodat.html http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/datfaq.htm http://roo.emu.id.au/Software/DatAudio/ http://www.xs4all.nl/~heemsker/fup/ http://www.zianet.com/jgray/dat/index.html I used read_dat to dump a DAT monitor tape from each of two concerts my band played. My drive is a: Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 01931-XXX Rev: 5AC Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
