On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Evens Garde <evans.garde@gmail.com> wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Michael Mientus <michael.mientus@gmail.com> wrote:
Good, if you use a degausser then you might permanently damage the tapes. I would just stick to their request and write 0s to the tapes.
Are you aware of any tape that relies on some residual formatting marks that a degausser would destroy which the drive could not re-establish?
Many tape system have/require timing marks that are maintained despite whatever data is written on them. --
But all of those I've seen have the ability to re-establish these marks as would be necessary when you buy new raw tapes. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org