tapeutil (part of Atape, the drivers for higher end drives) has an erase
function.

Orville L. Lantto
Datatrend Technologies, Inc.  (http://www.datatrend.com)

Email: Orville.Lantto AT dtrend DOT com





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        Subject:        AIX support for ERASING a tape


Our STK 9840 tape drives are attached to an AIX host.

The 9840 drives support the SCSI DSE command (Data Security Erase).
DSE has to be issued by software.

Anybody know of a utility I can run on AIX that will let me issue that
command to a tape drive?