Links to Related Information

Other sources of information on using a SCSI DAT for audio

Firmware to update your DAT drive with audio capabilities!

	Archive Python Audio Firmware.
	Sony SDT9000 Audio Firmware This person has obviously copied a lot of text verbatim from my site.

The question of how to use a SCSI DAT for audio has been discussed many times on various mailing lists and news groups.

	The DAT-heads Yahoo! Group (No longer there. Here is the FAQ).
	The DAT-heads mailing list.
	The rec.audio.pro newsgroup (via Google Groups).

Some commercial, shareware or freeware programs:

	A Windows port of DATlib and a DAT-to-WAV program
	A Macintosh program called DATXtract
	A Linux program called read_dat by Andrew Taylor.
	Marty Gulaian has sent me a new and improved version of my original program. Here is the source code and the executable. I have included Marty's program notes in both Zip files.
	An anonymous programmer contributed this C++ source code for reading audio DATs and CDROMS. He tells me that my VB code and the CDEX program were his inspiration.
	Eduard Ungemach of Germany has released a Win32 program called VDAT.
	A commercial Macintosh product called DAT Studio from a company in England. (It looks like this product is no longer available.)
	Andrew Longhorn of Australia is working on a Mac program called DAT Audio.
	A DOS program by Computall Services of Canada called DAT2WAV that reads audio from a tape and dumps it to a WAV file.
	Some routines written in C for Solaris, called DATlib. (The link seems to be broken.) Here is another source: http://www.hoxnet.com/dat-tools/datlib/.
	SGI DAT Goodies
	WavDump.zip (9KB) from Computall Services lets you look at the header of a Wave file.

Additional information that is good to know:

	A very nice guide ASPI programming in Win32 covering C++, Assember and Visual Basic.
	Chapter 9 of the SGI Digital Audio and MIDI Programming manual. (The link seems to be broken.)
	The SGI IRIX 6.5 man page describing their DAT Audio Library. (The link seems to be broken.)
	The SGI IRIX 6.5 man page describing a DAT audio frame. (The link seems to be broken.)
	The main SGI IRIX 6.5 man page. (The link seems to be broken.) All of the DAT information is listed under the Subroutines (3) section.
	A copy of the final draft specification for SCSI-2 in PDF format from T10. Chapters 7,8 & 10 are the most useful for programming purposes.
	Adaptec's ASPI SDK, FAQs and Technical Reference. (The link seems to be broken.) See the VisualBasic Source Code page for a local copy of the ASPI SDK.)
	Ade Rixon has a good information page called: Using Audio DATs in DDS drives (The link seems to be broken.)
	Computall Services has a very nice DAT FAQ.
	A nice overview of how audio DATs work from The Cassette House.
	A patent by Archive Corporation.
	The document that defines the standard for audio DAT is The DAT Conference Standard.
	The Audio File Format FAQ (describes WAV files, among others).