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 +
+-----------------------+
On Wed, 2 May 2007 Richard.Mickle at mwrms.rrd.com wrote:
> 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 tape drive had a
> different segment size (or is it fragment size?) then a DLT8000. Also, a
> VSTape formatted tape can not be used in a DLTx000 drive.
>
> I found that the tapes formatted by an older drive could take about twice
> as long to read and write to. The end result is if you degauss the tapes,
> they will be formatted by your current drive, and you should get the best
> performance out of the tapes.
>
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:42:00 -0400
> From: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz.backup at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DLT Format Issues
> To: "Keith W" <keith at cydonia.net>
> Cc: Veritas List <veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
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> You should be able to check off the overwrite options in NBU though
> and that should take care of it.
>
> On 4/30/07, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz.backup at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd go for the erase, depends on the DLT version perhaps(?) but for
> > LTO-X tapes, they say right on the package NOT to degauss as a measure
> > of erasure.
> >
> > On 4/27/07, Keith W <keith at cydonia.net> wrote:
> > > 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/st0 erase)
> clean
> > > them up enough to be seen by the newer DLT tape machine or do I need
> to
> > > have them degaused?
> > >
> > > +-----------------------+
> > > + Keith +
> > > +-----------------------+
> > >
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