Re: Erasing data from a system

[bdietz@xxxxxx]

perhaps the following:
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200302/msg01560.html


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 Bryan Dietz
3X Corporation
614-410-9205




midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/12/2003 11:38:06 AM:

>
> There is an upcoming task to purge all data off DASD for a system that
> is going off lease and being returned.  Of course deleting the data (or
as
> it should relly be termed, marking it as deleted) is not robust enough.
> We need to physically destroy bits, or damage them beyond recoverability.

>
> Some years ago, I remember a process (it may have been on VM) that
> did this very task rather quickly (less than an hour, and more like
> 20 minutes if I remember correctly).  I seem to remember something about
> striping, but I can only barely remember having a memory.
>
> TIA,
>
> Dan Rasch - because if the human species concentrated on the really
> important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles!
> IBM Certified twice....... but still a couple PTFs away from Nirvana.