At 01:05 AM 7/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have recently acquired an HP SureStore 6000 tape unit to do
>my backups. This is a DAT (DDS-2) system connected to my SCSI
>adapter. Everything is working fine but I have one question.
>Is it possible to format a tape on one of these units? Having
>used ftape previously I was able to format a tape using ftools.
>
>I have searched through the documentation and online for anything
>that would indicate it was possible to format a DAT but I have not
>found anything along these lines.
>
>'mt' doesn't seem to support formatting. So, if it is possible
>then could someone please point me in the right direction.
>
>Thanks a lot,
>
>T. Tilton
>
>
Hi: You can use /sbin/taper to format tapes with that drive. See 'man
taper'.
Tom
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