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No it does not. It makes the disks unusable by i5/OS such that your data
in inaccessible. Now spend enough money and time and you /could/.maybe,
possibly put humpty dumpty back together again. It would be enormously
difficult and hugely expensive because you have lost all the pointers
that link things together, but it theoretically could be done. If you
look waay back in this thread (it's over a month old) you'll see other
discussion about writing over the disks repeatedly with different data
patterns. I wrote such a program and it works quite well. If you delete
every vestage of your stuff (profiles, DB, programs, IFS stuff etc etc)
and then run it enough times with FF then 00 then 55 then CC etc you are
writing now on the parts of the disk where your data lived. Then finish
it off with initializing all the disks from DST and you'll have a stack
of disks which in /MOST /situations could be safely sold or re-utilized
without worry. Could you still get data from them? Don't ever say never,
but it would be exceptionally difficult, time-consuming, and expensive
to do so.
You want the data? Follow the sysop to the corner quick-stop on the way
home and swipe the tapes from their car when they go in for a gallon of
milk :-)
- Larry
Walden H. Leverich wrote:
will effectively distroy all your data.
Does it actually write over the sectors w/new data? I thought it just
blasted the LIC section making the rest inaccessible. Even standards
like PCI require that your disks are "degaussed" before disposal.
-Walden
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