On 09 Sep 08, at 0031, Dan Beale-Cocks wrote: > Degaussers have to be pretty hefty to work. Handheld degaussers > (used for tape) won't work. And don't work for a lot of tape, either. DAT is very high coercivity and can't be erased with typical audio tape bulk erasers, and I believe the same's true for LTO. ian