On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:30 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:14 AM, yvan <yvan AT skywalker.is-a-chef DOT com> 
> wrote:
>> Hi !
>>
>> Yes, doing that at the moment. It takes a long time to reset all my
>> tapes, erase them, and start some tests on them .... it takes days ...
>> More to come soon ...
>>
>> By the way, what is the best way to erase a tape ? I tried a
>> "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/st0" but I had to stop it after 24h (maybe I
>> should use bigger block size to increase speed ?)
>> mt -f /dev/st0 erase gives me some error : Input/Ouput error after a few
>> seconds...
>>
>
> mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> mt -f /dev/nst0 weof
>
> John
>



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