On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:30 AM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:14 AM, yvan <y...@skywalker.is-a-chef.com> wrote: >> Hi ! >> >> Yes, doing that at the moment. It takes a long time to reset all my >> tapes, erase them, and start some tests on them .... it takes days ... >> More to come soon ... >> >> By the way, what is the best way to erase a tape ? I tried a >> "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/st0" but I had to stop it after 24h (maybe I >> should use bigger block size to increase speed ?) >> mt -f /dev/st0 erase gives me some error : Input/Ouput error after a few >> seconds... >> > > mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind > mt -f /dev/nst0 weof > > John >
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