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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: H₂O on August 24, 2007, 10:45:08 AM
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As many of you all know Computall (The company whom made DAT2WAV) is out of business.
But I just noticed that all versions are now avail for download for free from the website:
http://web.ncf.ca/aa571/download.htm
Also is a new Beta version (probably the last to be released) that supports multiple codecs. So someone could write a FLAC codec DLL for example.
I approached Jim about this in spring of 06 and he put together a similar release in July 06 so I could lookinto making a FLAC codec but I never got around to it - maybe someone else can.
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sweet, thanks for the heads up.
wget -r in full effect!
if anybody needs dat2wav or scsiping32 in the future and the website's down, talk to me.
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now if I could just find a working audio capable dat drive. The two I have found in the passed all failed within a few months of getting them.
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now if I could just find a working audio capable dat drive. The two I have found in the passed all failed within a few months of getting them.
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How did they fail and what drives where they? Just curious
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now if I could just find a working audio capable dat drive. The two I have found in the passed all failed within a few months of getting them.
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How did they fail and what drives where they? Just curious
There were drives pulled from SGI indigo's so they were 10+ years old at the time. They continued to work but the number of errors DAT2WAV began spewing was unacceptable. I went from 10-20 errors per 3 hour DAT to thousands. I even bought a DDS head cleaner and it didn't change anything.
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i've been through about 5 DDS drives. same symptoms. i can't say i'm surprised, we're working with dinosaur hardware here, yknow?
let me clarify: i've been through about 5 DDS drives *that i successfully flashed with the audio firmware and were able to mount and read audio tapes*. for every drive i was able to flash successfully, i'd buy three that wouldn't even flash.
this is all with a known-working model, too. i didn't much mind because even after failing to flash it with the audio firmware, i could still resell them as working backup drives on ebay. in most cases, putting the right keywords in the auction headline would actually fetch me a slightly higher price than i'd paid for it a couple of weeks before!
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Personnally I have never had any drives fail in that fashion.
I do have a lot of drives though - 3 Sony's, 3 CTD 8000's (2 I bought new and all flashed fine), and 1 CTD-4000 series (only used once - drive is new the electronics where pulled from a SGI DDS1 drive).
I haven't been running alot of hours on them though - I have dumped about 100 or so tapes on the CTD-8000 drives and about 100 tapes on the Sony drives.
What kind of lifetimes are you all getting out of these drives and on what models?