Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:05:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Readin DAT Audio tapes? Message-ID: <19971003170542.27390@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002230657.26112b-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 11:08:01PM -0700 References: <199709301931.JAA06320@caliban.dihelix.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002230657.26112b-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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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
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