The SV-DA10 was the consumer version of Panasonic's SV-3200 professional deck ; the same mechanism was used for the later SV-3700, SV-3800, SV-3900, SV-4100 followers as well as in the SV-E10 down-sized version of the DA10 and in the Japan-only SV-D900 upgraded version. It was also chosen by Denon and Studer for their own DAT recorders - case in point !
Part very practical shuttle search and incredibly fast FF/REW... 400x speed ! Noisy and scary but completely safe.
SV-DA10 to be the only consumer D.A.T. recorder allowing to add ABS-time after the recording