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- From: mabbot@stel.csir.co.za (Mike Abbot)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,rec.audio.pro
- Subject: RE: Re: Audio-capable, computer-interfaced DAT drives? [Summary]
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:29:06 GMT
- Organization: CSIR
- Lines: 31
- Message-ID: <mabbot.13.721466946@stel.csir.co.za>
- References: <1992Nov6.135302.29630@onionsnatcorp.ox.ac.uk>
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- Summary: Buy an SGI Indigo, maybe, maybe not the only solution
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- Perhaps a glimmer of hope.
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- >1. In general, DAT back-up devices cannot handle audio. Technically,
- > the reason is that computer data on a DAT has extra levels of
- > error-correction relative to audio data, and most drives refuse
- > to read tapes without data-type error correction, and will only
- > write tapes with enough error-correction for data. Legally, the
- > reason is that the suppliers of DAT back-up devices do not want to
- > tangle with record companies' lawyers.
-
- I was recently browsing through the programming manual of a WANGDAT 3200 and
- I noticed that it *is* possible to switch off the data-type error
- correction (Wang call it C3 ECC as opposed to the audio-type ECC, C1 and
- C2.) via a mode setup command to the drive.
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- I have not tried it, and I don't have much hope for its success, but anyway
- it might be of interest to you. Perhaps you can contact the WANGDAT
- technical guys and see what they have to say.
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- BTW : WANGDAT 3200 +- US$ 1500 internal/external versions, SCSI interface.
-
- Good luck
-
- Mike
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- Mike Abbott mabbot@fred.csir.co.za (EMAIL not very reliable at present)
- Cape Town PH : +27 2231 75101
- RSA FAX: +27 2231 75142
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