I bulk erased some tapes. Now the DAT drive won't settle with the
tape, and it ejects it. Any suggestions for getting these tapes
working again?
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Bad news I'm afraid.
DDS tapes contain a header that is read by the drive firmware to
identify tape type and also maintains a usage log, amongst other things.
If the tape is bulk-erased (using a big magnet) as opposed to being
erased in a DDS drive, this header is erased and the drive no longer
I wonder if there's some way to low-level format the tapes now that the
format, per se, has been blown away.
I remember years and years ago at DEC we got a bulk eraser just so we
could use our pile of TK50 tapes in a TK70 drive, which had higher
density but used the same tape. The drive would
