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? Thanks and sorry for the basic question. Shawn