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DVD-Ram scsi question
In article writes:
I was hoping to get a scsi card, so that I could take the external dvd-ram
drive (with the disc inside that has the fostex backup material) and hook THAT
up to my computer.
Are you asking if you can get an external DVD-RAM drive, connect it to
your Fostex SCSI port, and copy files to it? Then take the same drive,
connect it to a SCSI card (that you add to your computer) and then
copy files from that drive to the computer?
That sounds like it would work. These days, most external DVD drives
are set up for Firewire (probably an IDE drive inside the case) so it
might not be the simplest solution when it comes to finding the parts.
First, though, I'd puzzle through the Fostex manual (I know how hard
that is, I've seen some, though not that one) and maybe the buttons
and menus to see if it's actually possible to export files in WAV
format to a drive connected to the external SCSI port. I believe it
is, but be sure that you can actually do what you need to do before
you go off buying hardware.
What if I get a dvd-ram drive, internal, on my pc? Will it be able to read
the backup discs made from the external scsi drive? Is it possible to get a
dvd-ram drive put into a pc these days?
Yes, and yes. Once it's on the disk (there's an ISO format that they
all write and read) it should be able to be read by any drive capable
of reading that type of disk.
And this is all assuming that there is some sort of rip available so that my
computer can read whatever proprietary fostex files the backup disc will be.
Didn't John or somebody say that even though it stored files in its
own format, that there was a button on there that exports in the WAV
format? (see above) The Alesis HD24 works like that - it stores files
the way it likes them, and converts them to WAV or AIFF on the fly as
it spits them out the Ethernet port.
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