On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:03:53 -0700, Nich Wisland wrote:

> My company recently aquired a pair of Sun Ultra 5000's (along with a Sun
> mass storage unit). We are a reseller of surplus and used electronics,
> but our focus is on 100% data destruction. The two solutions to these
> issues we've found are 1) sell withoud drive array and 2) wipe drives
> individually outside of the units. Obviously, if there's an alternative,
> we'd prefer that. Not being a Sun user, I'm unfamiliar with utilites that
> allow for data destruction. Our usual practice involves a wipe program
> that re-writes every sector of the disk (thus deleting partition tables as
> well). Does anything like this exist for a Sun array purpose?
>

Use dd and write /dev/zero to the entire disk

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