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Thanks Remko,
I've got the toshiba TOTX173 data sheet. It can be useful.
Now looking for how pick-up the digital information on the pc sound
card, otherwise looking for another card.
BTW, is it necessary to have a special software on the PC, or does the
minidisk drive make all the business to record, make the compilation ?
Bye,
Jean-Luc
> >This is my first post to the list.
> >I find some interest in minidisks, and have some technical questions :
>
> Well, let's see how far I can help ya out.
>
> >- is there any possibility to record minidisks via a PC, using the
> >digital (optical) input ?
>
> If you've got a soundboard with a digital output, yeah sure.
> Digital outputs come in a wide variaty on soundboards, some boards only
> have a small 2 pin jumper header from which a CMOS or TTL S/PDIF level
> comes. You'll need a converter to make it into a optical signal, if it's a
> TTL level you're in luck, the only thing you'll need to do is hook up a
> TOSLINK transmitter unit like the Toshiba TOX173, if it's CMOS you'll need
> a line driver to convert the CMOS into a TTL signal, just look around on
> the internet for a schematic, and let someone with some electronic
> knowledge build it. Then there's also the coaxial outputs, normally via a
> Cinch connecter, in fact this is nothing but a CMOS S/PDIF signal, so
> you'll need a converter with live driver for that. If you're one of the
> lucky bastards that's got a Sounblaster Live (I believe Platinum) with an
> optical output all you'll have to do is hook up your optical cable and your
> done. If you've got a deck which about always have a non-optical digital
> input you have to connect it to a coaxial output.
>
> >- does any pc interface (usb, parallel port, card or external module)
> >exist to connect to the optical port of the minidisk recorder ?
>
> Not that I know of.
>
> >- is there a minidisk drive on the market, similar to cdrom drives, with
> >IDE (ATA) or other digital interface ?
>
> There's talk of MD-Data, but that isn't quite a success yet.
>
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