Doc,
Yes, you can do what you're talking about doing. In fact, I have a
Panasonic DVD-RAM drive I'd sell you cheap if you like. But you should
know that DVD-RAM as a format is pretty much dead and before too long
you won't be able to buy the drives anymore. I don't know if typical
DVD drives can read DVD-RAM discs or not. And I haven't been able to
get my DVD-RAM drive to work with a Macintosh. But on W2K it works
just fine. Not that I actually use it.

ulysses


Doc Gorpon wrote:

I'm pretty sure you can't do that. I think some of the confusion comes from
the way certain rack mount samplers can do that. The sampler is setup to
look like a SCSI device, the D2424LV and the computer SCSI card are
controllers looking for SCSI devices. Besides, I don't think SCSI is going
to work well all the way across a house, unless it's a really small house.

Thanks for the answers guys. However, I wanted to clarify what I think is a
misconception about my intention.
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. Somehow get the info from the backup source onto the
computer that way. Not hook the fostex directly into the computer.
I'm thinking the ethernet thing might be the way to go. But one more
question:
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?
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.