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At an old job, three of us once were going to scratch and destroy some drives in an old DEC alphaserver. Two hours later we were still trying to get inside the machined aluminum disk casings... they were built like tanks! Needless to say, it became a challenge and we spent some serious time on it that day... later when we succeeded, one of the metallic platters ended up in the organizations industrial/medical garbage shredder machine (along with some tapes and other stuff). As we were disposing of some other stuff, the guys running the machine came back from their smoke break and we heard "What the hell is in this machine? TAPE???!!!". We explained that we thought it could handle plastic tapes and then hightailed it before it might choke on the disk platter. Ah... the good old days... "Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxx om> To Sent by: "Midrange Systems Technical midrange-l-bounce Discussion" s@xxxxxxxxxxxx <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc 09/20/2005 02:33 Subject PM Re: complete "scrubbing" of our data from the disk Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midra nge.com> Sledge Hammer. Fire. --------------------------------- Booth Martin http://www.martinvt.com --------------------------------- -------Original Message------- From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Date: 09/20/05 13:26:05 To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: complete "scrubbing" of our data from the disk We are going to get rid of some disks. How do I do a complete bit-overwrite before disposal? Regards, Guy Henza Tri-State Hospital Supply Corporation 301 Catrel Howell MI 48844 fon (517) 546-5400 x1312 fax (517) 540-1513 GHenza@xxxxxxxxx -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. _____________________________________________________________________________ Scanned by IBM Email Security Management Services powered by MessageLabs. For more information please visit http://www.ers.ibm.com _____________________________________________________________________________ ForwardSourceID:NT0002C4AA _____________________________________________________________________________ Scanned by IBM Email Security Management Services powered by MessageLabs. For more information please visit http://www.ers.ibm.com _____________________________________________________________________________
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