Re: Changing a tape's density

[Bernhard R. Erdmann]

Paul Tomblin wrote:
> 
> I just bought a DDS-2 drive to replace my DDS-1 drive (anybody want to buy
> it?).  Anyway, I tried one of my 120m tapes that had been used in the
> DDS-1 drive, and it appears that the new drive recognizes the old format
> and won't write to it at the higher density.  How can I force it to
> reformat?  I don't have a bulk eraser.  I tried using "mt setdensity
> DDS-2", but it didn't take.

mt weof 5
or
mt erase
or
dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k of=$TAPE