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Just make sure to get the leader on the tape near the magnet. (say first 20
inches or so) that will destroy the factory tape header and no production
tape drive will read it.
Short of destroying the Mylar, there might be some potential to recover
data, but at what cost and effort?
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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James
H. H. Lampert
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 3:48 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Disposing old tapes
Nathan Andelin wrote:
Would passing the tape between a couple of strong cow magnets be just
as effective as shredding the tape?
PaultinNZ wrote:
Love to see the replies to this.
Using cow magnets to "bulk" a tape. What a "bezoar" idea.
I should think, though, that any strong magnet, e.g., the back end of a
large cast-off loudspeaker, would do the job. But I'm not an expert on data
recovery, and so I don't know offhand what it takes to make data
irrecoverable.
--
JHHL
midrange.com
