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.


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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.


Yes, you are correct.

Fostex D2424LV manual :
Page 93 Save/load data using SCSI
Page 99 Save/load data using onternal hard drive 2 or DVD
Page 101 Save/load WAV data

Notes about saving loading WAV files :
You have to use an MS DOS FAT 16 formated drive
The D2424LV can't format disks as MS DOS FAT 16. You'll have to format them
first on your PC.
Hard drives formatted FAT 16 are limited to one partition with a max size of
2 gigs. ( I'd assume that DVD's are also limited to 2 gigs until someone
proves different )
If you expect to import WAV files back into the D2424LV a very strict file
naming convention must be used.


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.

Yup, that's the Fostex recommended way of doing it. There 'is' that third
party beta experimental ripper that 'can' take Fostex proprietary FDMS-3
format files and convert them to WAV files but, it has little or no support
so I wouldn't count on it working for any particular person. There have been
a couple reports of it working pretty good though. I haven't tried it
myself.

John L Rice