[rescue] bulk erasing DLT tapes (or, more specifically, NOT)

[Richard]

In article <20080304221729.GA1885 at algol.frenzied.us>,
    Doug McLaren <dougmc at frenzied.us>  writes:

> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:12:45PM -0700, Richard wrote:
> 
> | We went round and round and round on this on the cctalk
> | list and the conslusion is that the data may be unreadable, but the
> | media is still usable.
> 
> What seems likely is that the media might be unusable -- until it's
> properly deguassed, at which point it becomes usable.

I'd really like to hear this from someone with experience in this
situation instead of just supposition, though.
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