Re: How do I wipe out the data

>Hello all,
>
>For a 9402-400 V3R7 .....
>
>Can anyone tell me how to wipe out the data from my AS/400 before it
>gets picked up by IBM?  It's getting returned to IBM Leasing (now called
>IBM Financing).
>TIA.
>
>Glenn Gundermann


On our adventures to our disaster recovery site, we used an option during
an install of the operating system that initializes the disk drives.  Takes
about 30 minutes to get to the point in the process where you take the
option to erase things.

According to IBM it blows away the index to the disks.  Although it doesn't
erase everything, we've been told that once the install gets that far
along, it's practically impossible to retrieve anything usable (ie based on
where the raid stripes are and where the data chunks get stored); the
install process creates a new index.

It would take Rochester to put the pieces back together again, and take
lots and lots of time.  Unless you're the government and have spy-sensitive
data, it's a 'good enough' solution.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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