hi - -" i don't sure it can be or not ... ok i know in market have Tapebackup Device for sell... and it use DAT too....

.... it posible ? to change Data to Audio and Record into DAT ( with my Sony "DTC-500 ES" ) = =" ?

( only - -" want to get some fun.... from unused DAT )

hope some program can do.

Why not simply try it? I never worked with DAT recorder myself, but as I understand it's just some external device that is connected digitally with your soundcard, right?
So just open a file as if it were a music file and then record it with your DAT recorder. The only problem I can foresee is that you might have trouble with offsets (where does the file start), but you could work around that by prepending some kind of synchronization signal to the file (a pattern of sample values that normally wouldn't occur at the start of the file and allows you to determine exactly where the file starts).

EDIT: And you'd also have to think of something that allows you to know when the file ends of course.

Yes and i hope to have some software can help me to do this ( i want something that can repair if it has some error ( i'm not surely it never error ) something like ECC in cd-rom maybe i got to use " PAR2 " with it )

ok wait for another comment... thx a lot for come.

You could indeed use par2 for error correction. And if you want something to put a bit of (simple!) synchronization stuff in front of a file and something that will let you find the end, I'd happy to provide it (just mail me).

I've been wondering if something similar is possible with DV camcorders. Would be a bit more storage space per tape (19GB/60 minutes tape IIRC, price 4-5 € per tape here). But probably most camcorders that can be connected to PC via firewire will require data in valid DV format to store it properly...
But maybe some data-to-fake-DV wrapper exists?

there is a commercial utility for mac-os called 'dv backup'.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/syst...s/dvbackup.html

I'm always amazed at how many people still want to back up to tape these days. I don't think there are too many people still buying tape backups with the price of hard drives now. At one point they were the only choice to get a good amount of GB space with a decent price but now they are probably more expensive than hard drives and when you calculate the amount of time you need to spend recording to tape vs USB2 or IDE it is laughable.

It is like people keeping their betamax players since the quality is better. Holding on to dying/dead technolgy

twoj, that really depends on the data one is handling, for video, tape storage is still the best option of course (pricewise).