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DAT question

Rubycon

Rubycon

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Is this possible or has it been done before?

"Ripping" a DAT tape into a computer using a DDS4 drive.
 
Well AES/BU transfer (recording) at 1/1 sucks. The drives can certainly go faster. Imagine if you had to rip all your cd's at 1X!
 
Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Well AES/BU transfer (recording) at 1/1 sucks. The drives can certainly go faster. Imagine if you had to rip all your cd's at 1X!
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ripping @ greater tahn 8x causes a bunch of errors iirc
 
yes, certain types of old drives can...with the right software. IIRC it came out to about 2x-3x speed. I remember looking into it ~6 years ago to save wear on my dat machines. So glad to be free of that.

it was a dated, kludgy hack back then (I determined it wasn't worthwhile). I'd imagine that the drives now are so old and hard to find that it isn't remotely worth it. the software was written by one guy and might not even run on XP.

all the info you need:

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/datfaq.htm

also, a newer, mac osx method found via google:

http://pdicamillo.org/~peter/datxtract/
 
I know certain special versions of DAT drives that shipped with DAWs had the ripping functionality added in firmware. Couldn't tell you any more specifics than that though...
 
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