Re: erasing data from HP servers & EMC disk arra

[aoratos () wideopenwest com]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:27:24 -0700, "Orlando J. Cano" wrote:

> I was wondering what some of you are using to erase
> data from old HP-9000 servers and new EMC disk arrays
> which hold up to 96 hard drives.
>
> Orlando Cano

Orlando,

I've heard good things about UniShred Pro. (commercial tool
at http://www.lat.com/Our_Products.html)

If you are looking for free options you can:
1) "dd if=/dev/random of=dev/rdsk/cXtYdZ bs=64k"
2) Lather, rinse, repeat (7 times) to taste.
3) This can be time-consuming.

OR

1) "man mediainit"
2) Be aware that mediainit runs are measured in days, not
hours.

I hope this helps.

Aoratos.

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