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> <clip> ....iSeries use, you have effectively made another pass across the > data and mucked up the sector sizes in such a manner that the > level of knowledge needed to recover data has increased again. > > All this nattering simply points out that the risk of data > recovery is not zero, but it also isn't very probably either. and would therefore fail a decent audit or court action, and not meet certain specs like the DOD mentioned earlier. jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Baker" <smbaker@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 4:34 PM Subject: RE: complete "scrubbing" of our data from the disk > Jones, John (US) wrote on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:38:07 GMT: > > > In all seriousness... > > > > Install them in a PC with a SCSI card & use a cheap/freeware > > DODWipe to zero the drives. > > > > Another option on a machine that is Linux capable is to move an > IOA and the disks to a Linux partition, reformat, and use an > equivalent Linux utility. > > While the DST option to destroy disk unit data is relatively > simplistic, someone would need to be disk technology and i5/OS > savvy to recover any bits & pieces of data off the drive. While > the knowledge needed isn't trivial, I'd imagine that in most > cases drives from an iSeries that will be resold will go to > another iSeries customer who isn't going to take the time or > effort to attempt to discover what was previously on the units. > And remember as soon as you begin to add the units to a different > iSeries, they'll get reformated again, potentially get parity > stripes created (maybe in a different location than they were > previously), and if added to a disk pool with add & balance > option, have data placed on the drive. If the drives don't got > to another iSeries, as soon as the drives get reformated to non- > iSeries use, you have effectively made another pass across the > data and mucked up the sector sizes in such a manner that the > level of knowledge needed to recover data has increased again. > > All this nattering simply points out that the risk of data > recovery is not zero, but it also isn't very probably either. > > -- > Sue > iSeries Advanced Technical Sales Support > Rochester, MN > > -- > 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. > >
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