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  3. September 2005

Re: complete "scrubbing" of our data from the disk

John,

Thanks for info.

Another question:
1) Your take a HD from the AS/400 - reformat it on a PC.
2) Then you take the same HD, install it again into AS/400.

Can the HD be 'low level' reformatted on AS/400 - from the 
PC/SCSI format ??

Guy - in his mail, wants to resell the HD - and I asume as an 
AS/400 HD.

Best regards,
Leif
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 20. september 2005 23:31
Subject: RE: complete "scrubbing" of our data from the disk


There's absolutely no issues taking an iSeries disk and installing it on
a PC.  I've done it numerous times.  You may need to re-lowlevel format
the drives (using the SCSI card's built-in utils), but after that the
drives are perfectly normal.

If you google around for "DOD wipe" or "secure drive erase" sort of
terms, you should find something either freeware or reasonably cheap.  I
don't recall what we use here off-hand.

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