Zip drive files to PC
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DM60
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Are you talking about the old IOmega's? If that is the case, if you can get the drive to show in Windows, then most likely, if they were formatted in a DOS format, you can copy them over.
I am 99% sure the IOMegas formatted to DOS, but I am not sure about the Fostex what format they used.
I am 99% sure the IOMegas formatted to DOS, but I am not sure about the Fostex what format they used.
arcaxis
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Some searching through the FD-8 manual I found......
"The FD-8’s recorder section uses a recording format called
FDMS-3 (Fostex Disk Management System-3). It uses an
external SCSI device (stationary disk or removable disk)
as the recording media."
With some Googling I found the FDMS-3 appears to be in a format of raw data, which even if you could get it into a PC, may not be usable in that format without some means to convert it.
Further Googling found........ FDMS2Tools which appears be a utility someone was developing to convert 'Fostex Disk Manager System V2.0' raw data to possibly a wav format. It's unlikely this conversion tool would work for the FDMS-3 FD-8 files.
This may be worth a read...
FDMS-3 Ripper
FDMS3-FS ? Freecode
"The FD-8’s recorder section uses a recording format called
FDMS-3 (Fostex Disk Management System-3). It uses an
external SCSI device (stationary disk or removable disk)
as the recording media."
With some Googling I found the FDMS-3 appears to be in a format of raw data, which even if you could get it into a PC, may not be usable in that format without some means to convert it.
Further Googling found........ FDMS2Tools which appears be a utility someone was developing to convert 'Fostex Disk Manager System V2.0' raw data to possibly a wav format. It's unlikely this conversion tool would work for the FDMS-3 FD-8 files.
This may be worth a read...
FDMS-3 Ripper
FDMS3-FS ? Freecode