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From: tj@xn.ll.mit.edu
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Subject: DAT tape drives...
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.212123.1730@xn.ll.mit.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 21:21:23 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Is it possible to read DAT tapes made by audio DAT recorders/players on
the DAT drives often available for Unix machines?

One vendor told me that the standard SunOS device driver works on their
drive, so slight software modifications to read audio DAT tapes would
be possible (probably load marks and such would have to be overridden in
the tape driver to get the audio tapes read.)  

Is there any hardware reason why this would not be possible?  

				- tj.
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