mdm111 Posted October 27, 2013 Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 Hi, I've managed to procure an SCSI Sony MDM-111. However, I can't use it. Windows 98 sees it as "removable disk", trying to format prints the size at 150.5Mb, however every access yields only "no disk in this drive, or the drive door is open". The drive's LED blinks once though - and I've tried with 6 disks. Do I need a special program, or is the drive malfunctioning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkrockaddict Posted October 27, 2013 Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 i think you just need md data blanks neertheless these can be used in normal md recorders for recording and playback.Don´t know if your drive takes normal blanks as well Seems it won´t accept these.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdm111 Posted October 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 Thanks for the answer. All I have are some "Memorex 74 MD" disks. What can I do with these then? Record audio in ATRAC, or - if the drive firmware supports only data - not even that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkrockaddict Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 I think what you got is a Data Drive .Not an Audio Player. See minidisc.org ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdm111 Posted March 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2014 Yep, turns out I needed an MD DATA disc. I wrote a small review of the process: http://gabucino.hu/index.htm#2014-03-26-17:44:54 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamashii Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 (edited) And here I was thinking this was about storing data in a normal MD. I'm sorry to piggy-back my random ramblings in this topic, but I'm unsure if someone has talked about this before. Lately, I got a MZ-NF810 from a friend, and I got this weird idea about storing data in MD. I know that it has an USB port and it works one-way only, but I've been thinking about storing data as audio files in the MiniDisc. It could be useful for hiding private stuff in discs that no-one usually would think to contain data. The idea would be to store 24 bits of data as sound in the 24 discrete critical frequency bands ATRAC has defined (part 2.3 of the ATRAC spec at http://www.minidisc.org/aes_atrac.html) as a point of data during a couple of samples at 22050 Hz. It would store then 3 bytes 11025 times per second, 1984500 bytes per minute, to encode the data. The audio information would be generated by a software, and it would be recorded via our trusty optical interface (or in the case of NetMD, USB interface). The file name could be stored at the data track. To decode it, it would have to be played back (I know, really slow) via the optical interface (no USB downloading here, it seems) and received by the software, which will capture the sound tidbits and turn it into data again. I know that it seems weird, very modem-like and the audio would be a nice madness of noise, but I don't know if it could be made. How feasible would be to do this, from all your experience? Edited April 23, 2014 by Tamashii Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azureal Posted April 23, 2014 Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 It's certainly possible. Years ago, circa 1980, we stored programs and data on audio cassette tapes by recording from an analog output on the computer, then loaded the programs/data by performing a playback into an audio input. Sounds interesting but I can't really think of any real use for it these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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