[SunHELP] Wiping Sparc harddrives

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 This really depends on what the goal is. Any "quick" method
is not going to be secure. But then any software method
won't be secure anyway.
 Also, the type of drive in question is needed to come up
with a fast way of wiping the information off of them in a
large quantity. (i.e.- hot swappable drives lend themselves
easier to a "quick" solution)

 Do they care if the method leaves the information in a
fairly easy to recover state or do they want a psuedo-secure
method (less "quick", still not foolproof)?
 And out of curiousity, why is a scrapper interested in this
when it is the warehouse people (whose possession (and
responsibility) the drives are currently in) who have to 
perform this before the scrapper can take charge of them?
And is the scrapping company planning on reselling these
machines instead of scrapping them?

 -david

> Is there a quick way to wipe the information off a HD in a sparc?  I was 
> asked recenetly by a friend who works at a scrapper if there was a quick 
> way, it looks like they are going to get a bunch of sparcs but the HD's 
> need to be wiped before they remove them from the warehouse where they are 
> currently stored.
> 
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