8 May
2007
8 May
'07
10:54 a.m.
On 5/8/07, Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
Yeah, I can't ever remember seeing 4mm audio DAT
tapes
used for data either. I was under the impression that
they would stretch or something. It could also be that
since the audio DAT format didn't really take off at
all in the consumer field, that the data tapes would
have been more available.
I thought the dots on the bottom of the carts would cause audio tapes
to be kicked out of data drives. Is that not so? I _think_ you could
use data tapes in an audio DAT recorder/player, but I only ever saw
one of those, so I can't say for certain.
The DAT tapes I have (going back to 60meter DDS-1) all have this media
recognition system that the drives are supposed to respect, or so I
thought. Did I think wrong?
Now that I have a tarabyte at home (1 trillion bytes in box small
enough to palm), I should set up an external SCSI box and check my
backup tapes from a few years back. I have CD backups from that era
as well (and copies of copies of it all), so I'm not worried about one
(?!?) bad tape ruining my day, but I should take advantage of the
equipment on hand to see what reads and migrate the contents to newer
media.
-ethan
-ethan