On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:26:57PM -0600, Shawn Fertch wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 13:54, Munir Nassar wrote: > > > > > if you want to be sure, dd if=/dev/random > > of=/dev/<drive> and repeat 10 or so times.... > > > > Sorry to somewhat hijack this thread, but it reminded me of my tape > drive. This is a stupid newbie question, but I've never had to do it on > a linux box before: How do I find out what device my tape drive is? > > On HP's I can do: > # ioscan -fnC tape > > On 5.x Tru64: > # hwmgr -show device > > Is there an equivalent for linux? # cdrecord -scanbus # cat /proc/scsi/scsi florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20021115/43ac2467/attachment.pgp