On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:26:57PM -0600, Shawn Fertch wrote:
> 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?

# cdrecord -scanbus

# cat /proc/scsi/scsi

florin

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