25 Jan
2010
25 Jan
'10
1:41 p.m.
On 25 Jan 2010 at 19:52, Adam Sampson wrote:
Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
writes:
Well, I could say the same thing about DECTapes, audio cassettes,
QIC, Travan, 8mm, Pereos or even half-inch 7 or 9 track reel-to-
reel, or just about any tape for that matter. But I keep it around
because I do have lots of things on DDS and I'm not about to dedicate
the time to put them some other equally capricious medium. It's one
of about 5 DDS 4mm drives that I own, so I'm not out of luck by any
means.
And yes, this is one of the rare ones (an Archive) that does read
audio DAT. Fortunately, it can be manually fed, rather than relying
on the magazine feed.
--Chuck
Don't waste your time with a DDS drive. Trash
ist and you are done.
Unless it's one of the (fairly rare) drives that's capable of reading
audio DATs, in which case it's a very useful tool for people with a
stack of DATs to digitise. Mine's a Sony SDT-9000, scavenged from a
local school's backup server when they junked it a few years ago.