DAT-heads Digest #524, Volume #7 Sun, 26 Jun 05 12:50:01 EDT Contents: Fostex burner help (Erik B) Re: DAT to CD on Mac (Peter DiCamillo) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Erik B Subject: Fostex burner help Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:49:04 -0400 Hey - I sent this a week or so ago but got zero responses, though I've also been having problems with my swell bellatlantic/verizon account. So, if there's anybody who can give me any useful information, please write me at erikb33 (at) gmail (dot) com, rather than where I'm writing from now. many thanks, Erik > My Fostex D-5 cd burner gradually starting giving me more & more > (until always) "check disc" errors every time I put a disc in (blank > or not). A cleaning didn't help. > I brought it to a local (nyc) Fostex authorized place to pay $75 for > an estimate. I was told the laser didn't work, and the cost to repair > it would be....(drum roll).... $795, $350 just being 'the Fostex > charge for the laser' itself. > > Of course I'm not paying that to get it fixed, but I'm wondering if > anybody else here has had a similar problem, and if it really isn't > worth fixing, or if I just went to a place that sucks. > > Meanwhile, if it is now furniture, any recommendations for a new one > ($500ish)? Could somebody use this for parts? > > thanks, > Erik B. ------------------------------ From: Peter DiCamillo Subject: Re: DAT to CD on Mac Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 02:37:13 -0400 > I've been transferring DATs to CD on a Mac using a Seagate audio > capable SCSI DAT drive and ReadDAT X 0.5. THis worked fine in Panther > but does NOT work in Tiger. > > If there is any other Mac'er on the list doing this, please let me > know if it works for you in Tiger, and your set-up. My DATXtract program for OS X is designed to do this, and works under Tiger. Also, a new version, 1.1 is available now. For more information, go to the web page at: http://pdicamillo.org/~peter/datxtract/ Peter ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** To unsubscribe from this digest, please send email to dat-heads-unsubscribe@datheads.phish.net If your email address has changed, you may (optionally) send the message to dat-heads-unsubscribe-oldaddress=olddomain@datheads.phish.net and the old address will be removed. Problems or questions about a subscription should be addressed via these avenues and then if needed to dat-heads-owner@datheads.phish.net or postmaster@datheads.phish.net never the list itself You can submit a message for inclusion in the next digest via this address: Internet: dat-heads@datheads.phish.net Archives of DAT-Heads digests and related files are available on the DAT-Heads home page: http://www.solorb.com/dat-heads/ End of DAT-Heads Digest ******************************