Legato includes an ERASE command with Networker.
It issues a low level SCSI erase comand to a Drive specified by
Bus/Target/Lun
check a couple of other options in the ManPage

Very brute force, but very effective!

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From: "Ty Young" <phillip_young AT I2 DOT COM>
To: <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 4:44 AM
Subject: [Networker] depositing previously-labelled tapes into a new NSR
host

  Is there a more efficient means of achieving the same
> goal?  (It just occurred to me that a large magnet might be helpful...)
>
> TIA
> -ty
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