Author: Richard.Mickle at mwrms.rrd.com (Richard.Mickle AT mwrms.rrd DOT com)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 09:31:43 -0500
Keith, You can just erase them as stated below, but there is one thing to consider. The performance you get out of the tape will depend on the type of drive that the tape was used in first. A DLT2000
Thank you. I've contacted a degauss company that will do all of the DLT's for 3.00 each. Given the cost of buying a degausser, this seems very reasonable I would think. Thanks again. +--+ + Keith + +
I have a hundred or so DLT IV tapes that were in a different/unknown tape stacker. I need to get them cleaned up so that my Overland machine will properly see them. Will a simple erase (mt -f /dev/st