Hi, Rob!
Trying to kill the keyboard, Rob Kobiske
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> I have a Hp 10/20gig IDE tape drive and i have it all set up and it works
> just fine but i would like to know what i have to do to format or just
> erase the tape so when i rotate my tapes i can delete all of what is on
> the tape and put the new stuff on the tape.
As fas as I understand tapes in general, you just start
writing at the beginning, and that's it. The tape writes a
'here ends all usable date' (2 filemarks) at the end of the
recording. If you skip to the end and continue to write, the
second filemark is erased, so it's just a 'end of one file'
mark anymore.
That also means that your tape won't restore one bit of data
even if you write a short file over a long one. Of course
people really interested in your data won't find that a
challenge :-) (not that erasing/formatting would help that
much either.)
-Wolfgang
