Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:57:14 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: stox@imagescape.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading DAT tape with audio data Message-ID: <200003240257.UAA19596@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Kenneth P. Stox" <stox@enteract.com> of "Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:27:34 CST." <XFMail.000323092734.stox@enteract.com>
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"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
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