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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers View tape Info? Post 5108 by Optimus_P on Tuesday 7th of August 2001 04:56:49 PM
Old 08-07-2001
the only problem i see with what your trying to do is you dont know the command that wrote to the tape if anything is on them at all.

We make it a pollicy to not toss anything out for at least 1-1.5 years after it is no longer in use. IE tapes. then we send them to a disposale company that specializes in destroying data. I would just say hey have a bon fire one night. Used tapes wont bring much if anything in an auction.


if your on a solaris machine you can try the erase command.

Code:
man mt


NAME
     mt - control magnetic tape drive operation

SYNOPSIS
     mt [-V] [-f device]  [--file=device]  [--version]  operation
     [count]

Misc. Reference Manual Pages
erase
          Erase the tape.

 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

tcopy

tcopy(1)							   User Commands							  tcopy(1)

NAME

       tcopy - copy a magnetic tape

SYNOPSIS

       tcopy source [destination]

DESCRIPTION

       The  tcopy  utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the
       contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end.

       When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a  des-
       tination  is  specified,  tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro-
       duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.

       The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example,

	 example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWesu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)

NOTES

       tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of  ioctl(2) requests.

SunOS 5.11							    10 Mar 2000 							  tcopy(1)
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