Drive inventory

From: Clint Wolff <vaxman_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Thu Feb 14 17:19:22 2002

DAT is the same as DDS except for the identification holes on the
case, and I would assume a royalty to the recording industry...
My Maynard/Archive/Seagate drive won't take DAT tapes. Irritating
because I wanted to write music to them at the time.

Clint

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Clint Wolff (VAX collector) [mailto:vaxman_at_earthlink.net]
>
> > Actually, there are FIVE formats: DAT, DDS, DDS-2, DDS-3, and DDS-4.
> > I don't know the exact differences between DAT and DDS, but most
> > drives won't accept a DAT tape...
>
> I thought DAT was the audio format (48Khz, 16[?}bit, up to 4 channels),
> and the tapes are pretty identical to DDS?
>
> I do have a DDS (DDS2, I think) drive that will read/write audio DAT in
> my Indigo2.
>
> Chris
>
>
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