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Working with disks, tapes, and CD-ROMs

Formatting tapes

Most tapes do not require formatting as this is done during manufacturing. Mini-cartridge tapes do, however, require you to format them, using the format option to the mcart(C) command, as follows:

mcart format [device]

The default device file is /etc/default/mcconfig: to format a tape in any other drive, supply the device argument.


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