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Re: [ADSM-L] Destroy Data on 3590 Tapes

2007-04-20 16:32:50
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Destroy Data on 3590 Tapes
From: Robert Clark <Robert_Clark AT MAC DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:31:30 -0700
IIRC, the (analog) servo track on the 3590 is written by a special purpose device by the media maker, not the drive. So degaussing a tape makes it unusable for writing to again. (And worthless to anyone who would buy it.)

You may be able to hack up a script to use tapeutil to mount the tapes systematically, and then dd /dev/zero over all the blocks of the tape. But how confident will you be that you've erased everything?

[RC]


On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:52 AM, Herrmann, Boris wrote:

Hi all,

I've another question. We've got two new 3584 Libraries with 3592 Drives. Our boss want to sell the old Library 3494 with the all 3590 Tapes (about 2300). For this reason we've to destory the data on this tapes. The Library is attached via SCSI to our AIX TSM Server (Version 5.2.8.0). Does anyone know how we can realize this matter?

We are at a loss how we can do destorying 2300 Tapes with minor effort.

With kind regards,

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