[geeks] Re: Octane audio software

Tue Jan 28 15:35:42 CST 2003

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:23:30PM +1300, Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> One of the coolest SGI tricks I've ever seen was an Octane workstation
> that could natively read and write 48kHz stereo audio data through the
> SCSI bus to an audio DAT using a DDS drive. IIRC you had to have a drive
> with special firmware (possibly the Archive Python drive?) and the
> software was called Xdat. 

You do need a DAT drive with compatible firmware to do that.  The SGI
branded DDS and DDS2 drives all came that way to my understanding.
Other drives could possibly be upgraded.  And it worked on more
computers than just SGIs.