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Re: Audio DAT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcus Meissner)
Fri Sep 11 17:18:49 1998
From: Marcus Meissner <msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:48:14 +0200 (METDST)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980910141343.11151A-100000@revue.linux-scsi-sasami.anime.net>
In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980910141343.11151A-100000@revue.linux-scsi-sasami.anime.net>,
Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 jhohertz@golden.net wrote:
>> My question is: Can one extract Audio tracks of a DAT with a plain 'ol
>> 4mm DAT drive?
>
>The only drives that can do this are certain SGI DAT drives. And you have
>to request special firmware.
>
>Unfortunately, the command set is not documented (and probably never will
>be).
You can read/write those DATs using the usual READ and WRITE calls.
The only special commands are revised return data for READ POSITION and
revised data for LOCATE.
I have written a (userlevel mostly) library for reading DAT audiotapes
(assuming the firmware has been changed to an Audio DAT compatible one)
for Solaris 2.4/Sparc. Tested on Linux too, but only partial support for
READ POSITION and LOCATE.
<URL:ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/DATlib/>
Since I don't use Audio DATs any development has been abandoned, but I
will try to answer questions. (datlib@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
Marcus
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