RE: Recover data from As/400 Drives

   Good Thinking!  Once zapped back to the stone age on the PC they can be
   re-initialized on the System i with the recovery option to 'Initialize and
   Format'. 
    
     - Larry
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     From: "DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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     Date: 08/16/2006 12:34PM
     Subject: RE: Recover data from As/400 Drives

     As I recall, the iSeries DASD can be connected to a PC SCSI adapter.  Is
     there a disk wipe tool for the PC that could be used to scratch these
     drives?  I'm not sure if they could be used again by iSeries servers,
     though....

     Eric DeLong
     Sally Beauty Company
     MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
     940-297-2863 or ext. 1863

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     From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
     [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Haase, Justin C.
     Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:34 AM
     To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
     Subject: RE: Recover data from As/400 Drives

     I think someone with proper devices could recover data.  The chances of
     it being meaningful would be very slim unless it was a single-drive
     system, though.  With striping and being spread across multiple disks in
     a RAID set, it would make whatever data retrieved pretty "random," if
     you will.

     I also seem to recall some function suggested to IBM about adding an
     official "clear disks" feature to DST, never heard anything more about
     it.  I thought the government required writing 1s, then 0s something
     like 7 times to call a physical disk "clean."  Not sure on that number
     though - may be getting it confused with number of shuffles of a new
     deck of cards.

     Get a disk degausser.  That'll smoke 'em.  =)  And yes, taking backup
     tapes home is infinitely more risky than reselling these drives.  The
     chances are very very very remote, IMHO, but auditors can (and will)
     always find something.  If it's only a few, it's not worth it.

     --
     Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
     IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
     Kingland Systems Corporation

     -----Original Message-----
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     [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
     lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx
     Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:27 AM
     To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
     Subject: Recover data from As/400 Drives

       If I have done BOTH of:
        a) Delete ASP Data
          - AND -
        b) booted to a SLIC CD and done Initialize and Format disks for all
     disks
       on a system.
        
       is there any possibilty, however remote, that data could be recovered
     from
       those disks?
        
       In other words if you had disks from your company that had been
     cleared in
       this manner would you be comfortable selling those disks on the used
       market?  I have a customer who believes that SOX says you cannot sell
     that
       stuff because data could be recovered. I think they have 100,000
     times
       more exposure by having IT staff take backup tapes home in their car
     as
       off-site backups!
        
        - Larry
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