Can all 432* models of Seagate DDS drives read Audio DAT t..

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On Jul 6, 2005, seanpkrause@gmail.com <seanpkrause@gmail.com> commented:

> I am getting conflicting information.
> I see from this forum that 4320 and 4326 can be used for audio
> transfer.
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I think the reality is that most DDS DAT backup drives are fairly old at this
point, and most of them don't have the drivers needed to work well with
current operating systems like Mac OSX or Windows XP.

I've found there can be a lot of alignment problems and interchange problems
in playing back DAT audio tapes on even different players (let alone DDS
drives). My gut feeling is that while it's possible to play back a DAT tape
on a DDS drive, you're better off just taking the S/PDIF or AES digital
stream out of a conventional DAT machine and feeding it into a computer,
rather than trying to do it on a DDS drive.

For more on this, do a search on the DAT-Heads discussion group site:

http://www.solorb.com/dat-heads/


--MFW