> Wanda Prather wrote: > > Subject: AIX support for ERASING a tape > > Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:20:27 -0600 > > From: "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Our STK 9840 tape drives are attached to an AIX host. > > > > The 9840 drives support the SCSI DSE command (Data Security Erase). > > DSE has to be issued by software. > > > > Anybody know of a utility I can run on AIX that will let me issue that > > command to a tape drive? > > > > tctl -f/dev/rmtX erase > > Don't know if it uses the SCSI DSE command, but it would be some sort of > SCSI erase, I suspect. >
One intresting note, the mt command that both AIX and other unixes have has the exact same syntax, why in the world would IBM call it tctl (hard link to mt :)? (Guess the idea is, use mt, that's more portable :) -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams
