SOLUTION for all DLT 4000 users

Question

If you have had, like me, troubles in getting your DLT 4000 work with DVDSP 4, here is the solution.
The problem is DVDSP continously asking for the DLT to be inserted, also when you've already put it in.
The DLT 4000 is too old and too slow for your Mac, so the drive doesn't have the time to intialize the tape and something like a "timeout" occurs.
To solve, you need to FREEZE DSPro, do this or use some freezing shareware program:
1. Launch a Terminal window.
2. Change directory to the DVDSP folder, by typing the following:
cd /Applications/DVD\ Studio\ Pro/DVD\ Studio\ Pro.app/Contents/MacOS
(note that the backslashes are required in Unix to "escape" spaces in file
and directory names)
3. Start the DVDSP application from the Unix shell, by typing the following:
./DVD\ Studio\ Pro
4. DVDSP will run normally, but when you get to the point where it wants you
to insert the second tape, click in the Terminal window, and press
"control-Z" to suspend DVDSP. If you did it right, you will see the word
"Suspended" in the Terminal window.
5. Insert the second DLT tape, and wait for the drive to become ready (no
more whirring noises or blinking lights).
6. When you are ready, type "fg" into the Terminal window, and press
[Return]. This will bring DVDSP process back into the shell's "foreground,"
and will begin running again, and start writing to the drive. Life is good
again.
Do not close the Terminal window or type anything else into it until after
you are finished, and exit DVDSP normally.
I've found this hint here:
http://www.dvdafteredit.com/?q=node/198
I can guarantee that this works.
I've made a lot of DLT with this technique.
Bye
Valerio

Answer 1

Gentlemen,
It is highly recommended that, mimimally, a DLT 8000 and DLT Type IV tape be used for Image submission to replicators.
Writing on the slow DLT4000 is driving your replicator nuts, and some will complain to your clients; as it takes forever to extract the Image in comparison, especially with DVD-9's.
Excellent shape DLT 8000's, about 4 times faster than DLT4000's, can be found on eBay for under $200.
Take care,
Trai
Trai Forrester
TFDVD Research Labs
Http://www.DVDVerification.com
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