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01-12-2008, 05:13 AM
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 Re: A non-sun user with a stupid question 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 -- Bruce Porter XJR1300SP, XJ900F, GSX750W, GS550, GSX250, CB175 POTM#1(KoTL), WUSS#1 , YTC#1(bar), OSOS#2(KoTL) , DS#3 , IbW#18 ,Apostle#8 "The internet is a huge and diverse community and not every one is friendly" http://www.ytc1.co.uk There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/      |
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| Re: A non-sun user with a stupid question On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:40:09 +0100, YTC#1 <ukrm@ytc1.co.uk> wrote: > 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 For the OP who isn't a sun user. dd -if /dev/zero -of /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 -if = input file -of = output file /dev/dsk/ c0 controller 0 t0 target 0 d0 disk 0 s3 slice 3 Adjust the numbers as needed, use 'format' to see what disks are recognized by the system. Normally Slice-3 is the entire disk -- Michael Vore, W3CCV M-ASA [Ka8]; WHIRL, ABC; CAW, CW, AAW http://mike.vorefamily.net/ohmywoodness <-Custom Woodworking http://mike.vorefamily.net/thewoodenradio <-The weblog |
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01-12-2008, 05:14 AM
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| Re: A non-sun user with a stupid question > > format -> disk_no -> analyze would be a far better way of removing any > information from the drives. BTW, s2 is the entire disk. Right. S2 is the third 'slice'. Thanks for the correction. -- Michael Vore, W3CCV M-ASA [Ka8]; WHIRL, ABC; CAW, CW, AAW http://mike.vorefamily.net/ohmywoodness <-Custom Woodworking http://mike.vorefamily.net/thewoodenradio <-The weblog |
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