DATgoodies 1.5, tardist for download.

[Erik Baigar]

Hi audio DAT users,

today I compiled the DATgoodies, version 1.5 from the
SGI homepage with gcc3.3 for IRIX6.5.22f and later. Please
feel free to download the swpkg'ed files at

http://www.baigar.de/irix/DATgoodies-1.5.tardist.

This file installs the executables verifydat, dodat and
cdtodat in /usr/local/bin/ and the readme files and
example script files in /usr/local/doc/dat/. Please be
aware, that the binaries are ug+s and thus any user has
root access to DAT and CDROM via these tools. If you
do not like this, please issue

chmod a-s /usr/local/bin/cdtodat /usr/local/bin/verifydat
/usr/local/bin/dodat

as root after installation completed. I tested the utility
using a SONY SDT-9000 on Indigo2, R10k, MXI. It was easy to
transfer a cd to DAT via cdtodat and quality was excellent.
This should work with all audio compatible DAT drives which
where sold together with SGI boxes...

Best regards,

Erik.

[Erik Baigar]

Post by Erik Baigar
as root after installation completed. I tested the utility
using a SONY SDT-9000 on Indigo2, R10k, MXI. It was easy to
transfer a cd to DAT via cdtodat and quality was excellent.
This should work with all audio compatible DAT drives which
where sold together with SGI boxes...

...of course the DAT drive must be able to handle audio
data. The Sony SDT-9000 must have firmware revision 12.2
or 13.1 to be audio compatible. For more information on this
topic, please check the following web page:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adrian.rixon/personal/ade/dat-dds/drives.html

or

http://www.mashek.com/SGIstorage/DATdrives.php

Ciao,

Erik.

[Erik Baigar]

Post by Erik Baigar
using a SONY SDT-9000 on Indigo2, R10k, MXI. It was easy to
transfer a cd to DAT via cdtodat and quality was excellent.
This should work with all audio compatible DAT drives which
where sold together with SGI boxes...

Recently I got the hint, that cdtodat does not work properly.
The problem results from using a fast CDROM from which data
seems to be read to fast for writing to the slower DAT. The
problem can easily be circumvented by playing audio during
copy: /usr/local/bin/cdtodat -p (executed as root).

Best regards,

Erik.