From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 17:19:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B12814C2D for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:19:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt4-208-166-127-101.dialup.HiWAAY.net [208.166.127.101]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA01586; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:19:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA24169; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:19:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199903130119.TAA24169@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chuck Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: DAT recommendations, audio + backup In-reply-to: Message from Chuck of "Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:45:17 EST." <199903122245.RAA00533@capecod.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:19:05 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck writes: > Newbie question from one who would like to upgrade backup tape from > a Travan 4 to a DAT, but mainly to copy audio DATs. > > 1. Is every computer backup DAT able to read any audio DAT? > 2. Can audio DATs be written using a computer backup DAT? > 3. Do the tapes differ in any way, audio vs. backup? > 4. Any leads to usable FreeBSD audio editing software? > > Any info on successful models etc., or better yet the definitive web page > for FreeBSD DAT users greatly appreciated. To my knowledge there are no computer DDS drives on the common open market which can do audio similar to the way CD-R can. Think I saw a DDS recorder at http://www.corpsys.com/ that would take audio inputs and record directly, and also over SCSI. Was thousands of dollars. DDS drives shiped OEM with SGI workstations can do audio over SCSI. An SGI DDS-2 drive sells for over $2k new. Made by Seagate. Recently purchased some Seagate Scorpion 24's (DDS-3) at work. Only $1000 each. Manual mentions DAT audio. The SCSI quirk table they provide to be entered into the IRIX kernel doesn't have the audio flag. Even if you find an audio capable DDS drive you'll have a hard time finding software unless you purchase an SGI workstation. Saw somewhere refurbished Indy R5000's were around $1350 direct from SGI. Included a monitor, RAM, HD, OS, but no tape drive or CDROM. I have been happy with Seagate/Conner/Archive tape drives over the years. Altho the Scorpion 24 drives seem to have problems with high error rates (corrected error rates) and like to flash their LED slowly. Then again, that might be due to a bad batch of Sony DDS tapes. I ran almost 200 thru 4 drives last month. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.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-questions" in the body of the message