8 May
2007
8 May
'07
1:23 p.m.
On 08/05/07, Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
I don't have any audio DAT tapes, so I can't say for
certain, but I do have an audio DAT deck - it works
just fine with the computer data tapes. Never tried it
the other way around. I think the dots are just to
differentiate between DDS1, 2 and 3. I remember once I
tried to modify a DDS2 cart to become a DDS3, to see
what would happen. It didn't work. (gee, surprise,
surprise)...
There is definitely a media recogition system on 4mm carts that stops
you using them in the wrong sorts of drive; and indicates capacity
etc. Stick a 120M cart in a drive that can't cope and it just spits
it out again.. I've never seen an audio cart used in a data drive,
and we had a lot of customers using them.. (I was also very
disappointed with their general reliability.)