[Info-vax] lower-cost bulk eraser for high-coercivity tape media (DAT, DLT, Ultrium etc)?

[Scott Dorsey]

Rod Regier  <rregier at dymaxion.ca> wrote:
>Any suggestions for a lower-cost bulk eraser for high-coercivity tape media
>such as DAT, DLT, Ultrium, etc? (Media that has been used on OpenVMS nodes).

The cheap Geneva unit will wipe Exabytes and DATs, but will not wipe DLT or 
LTO tapes.

Note that once DLT tapes have been degaussed, they can no longer be formatted
without special equipment, so degaussing effectively destroys them.  That
being the case, you might as well just bandsaw them and be done with it.

If you have 60m DAT/DDS tapes, though, I have a customer who needs them.  He
cannot use the thinner 90m and 120m tapes for his instrumentation recorder.
--scott

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