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