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