Assume that I play a stereo, 44.1Khz, 16bit wav file on my pc wich has a
soundcard with digital (s/pdif ?) i/o....
Now there is a DAT player digitally hooked on that digital soundcard
output. 

My question is :  how exactly does the DAT record the sound from my
soundcard then ??  by traditional recording or
is there some sort of "a-rate" synchronisation so that my wav file is
actually digitally "copied" to DAT tape, like when
burning a wav to cd-audio format ???

wrapping up -->
Just recording or digital copying ???


David.