From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Mar 23 19:53:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5AF437C5FE for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 19:53:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-5-224.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.5.224]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA28837; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:53:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA19596; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:57:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200003240257.UAA19596@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: stox@imagescape.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: reading DAT tape with audio data In-reply-to: Message from "Kenneth P. Stox" of "Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:27:34 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:57:14 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Kenneth P. Stox" writes: > > The only DAT drives I know of that support audio are SGI's with "special" > firmware loaded. All SGI OEM Seagate DDS drives are supposed to have the special firmware. I have heard of open source efforts to make use of these features outside of SGI Irix. About a year ago I mounted some aftermarket Seagate Scorpion DDS-3 drives on an SGI O2, and if I remember right, "mt stat" reported the drives were audio capable just like Genuine SGI. Though that was strange at the time. None of the SGI drives had built-in D/A converter and audio outputs the way CDROM drives do. While I've had lots of SGI systems (no longer work there) with genuine SGI DDS drives, I've never had a DAT audio tape so I've never played with SGI's multimedia DDS/DAT abilities. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message