DAT-heads Digest #229, Volume #8                 Thu, 11 Oct 07 14:50:01 EDT

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  Re: Sound card for digital interface with Mac (macarone@mindspring.com)

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From: macarone@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: Sound card for digital interface with Mac
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:08:42 -0400

At 2:50 PM -0400 10/8/07,  Richard Levy wrote:

>I need to dump DAT recordings into my computer directly to make CDR
>masters. I run OS 10.3.9. Somebody please advise a dinosaur. Thanks.


I first read about this site right here on DAT-heads:

  http://pdicamillo.org/~peter/datxtract/

Instead of looking for a digital audio interface (USB, Firewire or PCI card)
I found a Sony SDT 9000 and a SCSI PCI card (ATTO is better than 
Adaptec) on e-bay at very reasonable prices. SCSI to Firewire or USB 
adaptors will also work, but you will have to open the Sony case to 
enable termination power with these)

Be sure that the SCSI card is a "pull" from a Mac and NOT a Windows 
PC, and that the Sony SDT 9000 is a "pull" from and SGI computer, 
otherwise you will need to "flash" the firmware, and it may be very 
difficult to find it. Son y is not very helpful.

But I found the whole project worth the effort because you can 
transfer perfect copies at less than half real-time. A 90 meter tape 
with 3 hours of music takes about an hour and 20 minutes to transfer.

With thanks to all those that posted about this in the past, and in 
particular to Peter DiCamillo that made it possible to do this on the 
Mac. Shame on Apple for not making it part of System 6-9, or even OS 
X where a port over from the Unix software would have been easy. SGI 
made this available ages ago.

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