If your tape drive is giving you messages to format a tape, you may need to us a cleaning tape. What kind of tape drive is it? Jon Schewe wrote: >mt -f /dev/st0 erase and wait about 3 hours. That is if you actually want >to erase the tape, otherwise just overwrite it, it's MUCH faster. > > > >>>>>>"RN" == Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>> > > RN> I am a bit green with tape devices in linux, and have looked for a half hour > RN> on how to format my 40/80 gig tape. I find lots of stuff on ftape, but > RN> nothing yet to just format my tape. > > RN> The drive is located at /dev/st0 > > > RN> Raymond > > > RN> _______________________________________________ > RN> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > RN> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > RN> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list