20walbone Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 I was wondering whether or not it is possible to list a Net MD device in My Computer and then access the MD itself? I am not sure if this would work. The player I have is the Sony MZ-N710 and I am running Windows XP SP2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belletristik Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Only Hi-MD can be used as a USB mass storage device in Windows XP, to read and write data like any other drive listed in My Computer. NetMD only allows transfers to the device (not from), and only ATRAC music files, and only using the Sony software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielbb90 Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 I think MD 'data drivs' can read MD's as data drives, but I don't really know?Well I know they can read MD data discs...Anyone know?What I do know is Hi-MD is the answer for data in MD!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDX-400 Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 I think MD 'data drivs' can read MD's as data drives, but I don't really know?Well I know they can read MD data discs...Anyone know?What I do know is Hi-MD is the answer for data in MD!!! Yes the last part is right, definitely Hi-MD for data.The first part is slightly inaccruate. MD-Data is a long discontined, and short-lived format, based on MD. Drives were very slow and data could only be written to MD-Data discs which are shaped slightly different than a music MD. MD-Data drives could playback music MDs but not write to them*. MD-Data discs cannot be read or written in a regular [music] MD device--the discs won't fit nor would the MD unit do anything with the disc even if it could. MD-Data survived two generations but, as mentioned, the drives were very slow and therefore not really viable in the computer industry. Therefore they were discontinued quickly. It was a long time ago too, so most people don't even remember or know about MD-Data. Had it been a faster format, and had Sony really pushed it, I think it could have replaced the 3.5" floppy. But then again there have been better things (like the LS120 or Zip or EZ drives) none of which ever could displace the floppy. Thank goodness flash drives have finally made the floppy obsolete though (floppies were a terrible format).*I put an asterisk on MD-Data drives writing to music MDs because there was an exception. There was a company that modified one of the original MD-Data drives so it could actually write/modify MDs. This drive was extremely expensive, upwards of $5000 US IIRC. However it was and remains today as the only device that could be used to transfer ATRAC [292k] tracks to/from a PC without transcoding or decoding the ATRAC file first (which is what the RH1 does). I don't think there was any way to encode ATRAC with the software though--encoding still had to be done, in realtime, by an MD unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 I think most 4-Track MiniDisc recorders can use either MD-Data or standard MD. I have a Tascam 564 that can only record on MD-Data, but will playback standard MD.The bottoms of the discs are slightly different, but as far as I know they do actually fit in standard MiniDisc players/recorders. Standard MD Recorders just state "red err" or "TOC Error" when an MD Data disc is inserted. But they do fit! At least my TDK MD Data 140mb discs do.. Here are a couple pics of MD Data vs Standard MD... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielbb90 Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 I think most 4-Track MiniDisc recorders can use either MD-Data or standard MD. I have a Tascam 564 that can only record on MD-Data, but will playback standard MD.The bottoms of the discs are slightly different, but as far as I know they do actually fit in standard MiniDisc players/recorders. Standard MD Recorders just state "red err" or "TOC Error" when an MD Data disc is inserted. But they do fit! At least my TDK MD Data 140mb discs do.. Here are a couple pics of MD Data vs Standard MD...Thats the first time I have seen the DataMD without a box... It would be geat if someone would do a pictorial on these! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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