What should be a full proof method, place the tapes in a bath of oil.  Even
with the a lot of cleaning care, I doubt you can clean the
tape sufficient to ever recover the information.

Jean Huot
Northern Credit Bureaus Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: ot: erasing tapes


> Jean suggests:
>
> > How about tearring off the aluminum B.OT. marker.  I believe that
withouth
> > the B.O.T. it's pretty hard to differentiate each and every 1's and O's
on a
> > tape.  Furthermore, you may want to crimple the first few feet of tape
pas
> > the B.O.T.  What's your opinion on this?
>
> Spare BOT/EOT markers are one of the few things we made sure we kept
> track of when we started moving away from 9 track drives some years ago.
>
> If you cut out the first few feet of a 9 track tape, the rest of the data
> is still recoverable (with a little work).
>
> If you cut out the first few feet of a DDS tape, the rest of the data
> isn't recoverable without a lot of *very expensive* hard work.
>
> --
> Stan Sieler                                          [log in to unmask]
>                                          http://www.allegro.com/sieler/
>