RE: Wiping out all data on disk drives.

["Justin C. Haase" <JHaase@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do a D-side manual IPL of the OS CD, then do "Install LIC and initialize
system" - that should take care of it.  If you want to be extra-safe, do it
a few times.  That will wipe the load source, then once you get to SST, you
can do initialize drives.  You can select all non-configured units, which
will be everything but your load source which you just wiped previously.

STRSST
3 - work w/ disk units
3 - work w/ disk unit recovery
2 - disk unit problem recovery procedures
1 - initialize and format disk unit


Either that or remove all the drives and put them in a degausser.

HTH,

jch

-----Original Message-----
From: Weatherly, Howard (Contractor) (DLIS)
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Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:28 PM
To: Midrange Mailing List (midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: Wiping out all data on disk drives.


Does anyone know of any program available for the 400 that will do a
security wipe of the disk drives? We are retiring our 400s and since there
may be sensitive/secret etc.. Data on the drives, the security folks want do
clear things like they do with PC's !!

Short of that any suggestions will help.

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                        Systems Advisor
                 Computer Task Group, Inc.
                           (269)-961-4324
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