tapeutil (part of Atape, the drivers for higher end drives) has an erase function.
Orville L. Lantto Datatrend Technologies, Inc. (http://www.datatrend.com) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/18/02 12:20 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: AIX support for ERASING a tape Our STK 9840 tape drives are attached to an AIX host. The 9840 drives support the SCSI DSE command (Data Security Erase). DSE has to be issued by software. Anybody know of a utility I can run on AIX that will let me issue that command to a tape drive?
