From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Oct 3 00:42:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA28102 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:42:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA28089; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:42:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA00415; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:05:44 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971003170542.27390@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:05:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug White Cc: David Langford , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Readin DAT Audio tapes? References: <199709301931.JAA06320@caliban.dihelix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 11:08:01PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 11:08:01PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, David Langford wrote: > >> >> Is there an easy way to play DAT audio tapes with any of the >> standard DAT drives? > > At one point I remember a discussion that DAT backup drives have a media > sensor on it and the DAT tapes are encoded depending on their intended > use. The audio ones are poorer quality I guess and the DAT drives will > reject them. So I don't think that'll work at all, unless you have a > drive that says it supports audio tapes too. All DDS drives that I know have a switch to determine whether DAT tapes should be rejected. If you want to handle DAT tapes, you could enable them by turning the switch off. Unfortunately, I don't think that that alone would solve the problem. Greg