RE: Program to obliterate data on disk subsystem.

Because it is the FedGov... and they need something C2 compliant e.g.
010101010101010101 perhaps! I do not believe, and I could be wrong (I hope!)
that the DST format will do that.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Landess [mailto:steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:35 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Program to obliterate data on disk subsystem.


Why not use DST to reformat the drives, like you were scratching a system
for reload?

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Weatherly, Howard (Contractor) (DLIS)" <Howard.Weatherly@xxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Mailing List (E-mail)" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:56 AM
Subject: Program to obliterate data on disk subsystem.


> Does anyone know of a product or is there an existing way to sanitize disk
> drives on the AS/400? The machine will be retired and we need to makes
sure
> there is no way to recover any data from the disks.
>
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