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cncjerry
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I restore DAT tape drives for grins. I recently found a Fostex D824 in great shape, very low cost, so I figured, why not. It has a 40GB IDE hard drive in it, works fine. I hooked a 300GB scsi drive to the backup SCSI connector and it formatted it as 100GB. I guess that is the limit. I backed up 7.5GB of the original data on the IDE drive to it and was able to play directly from the backup drive. Recording is locked out - is there any way to bypass the "record protect" on the backup drive?
When I tried to backup another program to that same drive, it sat there. I had to reboot the machine. The scsi backup drive then presented as needing formatting. I see many things that could have caused this (e.g. wrong scsi drive, powering off, poor power to the drive, etc). I tried it a second time and no problems so far. Issue is I can't seem to find scsci HDDs these days. I have about 50TB of SAS drives, just ordered two 73GB scsi drives off eBay. I tried a CF card adapter in the IDE slot. It formatted it as a 24bit backup, but that is worthless as you can't write to it, unless there is a way to bypass the "record protect". And as it is in the IDE slot, I can't backup to it either.
I don't know what I'll do with this thing. I like the idea of all that storage for background music. I hate booting computers, logging in, starting a streaming service, etc. I like to hit load and play music.
Jerry
When I tried to backup another program to that same drive, it sat there. I had to reboot the machine. The scsi backup drive then presented as needing formatting. I see many things that could have caused this (e.g. wrong scsi drive, powering off, poor power to the drive, etc). I tried it a second time and no problems so far. Issue is I can't seem to find scsci HDDs these days. I have about 50TB of SAS drives, just ordered two 73GB scsi drives off eBay. I tried a CF card adapter in the IDE slot. It formatted it as a 24bit backup, but that is worthless as you can't write to it, unless there is a way to bypass the "record protect". And as it is in the IDE slot, I can't backup to it either.
I don't know what I'll do with this thing. I like the idea of all that storage for background music. I hate booting computers, logging in, starting a streaming service, etc. I like to hit load and play music.
Jerry
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