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Re: [Networker] New barcocded labels on recycled tapes - what does Legato do?

2005-03-02 01:08:36
Subject: Re: [Networker] New barcocded labels on recycled tapes - what does Legato do?
From: Michael Coxe <mcoxe AT OPSWARE DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:59:57 -0800
Preston de Guise wrote:
Are you using Unix or Windows? Under Unix you could prevent the
recognition (after you've deleted the original barcodes in NetWorker)
by simply clobbering the first 64K on the tape - e.g.:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rmt/0cbn bs=32k count=2

As original post stated Solaris 5.8 server.
But if I have to do a 'dd' I might as well relabel the tape.

 - michael

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