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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