And it was surprisingly easy, although I did have a buddy walk me through it at first. I don't like how you have to set its levels, thats weak, but I taped it till it hit the 3 hr mark, in retrospect, I should have stoppeed, and recorded a new file for set 2, and noty just paused it for set break.
My battery pack worked, thanks RowJimmy, and now all I need to do is to get the file jazz onto my harddrive cpu.
I ran it optical in, wav, 44.1