[SunHELP] Wiping Sparc harddrives

[Bran Tregare]

the people who are currently in posession don't know a bloody thing about 
suns and don't care to learn so they asked the screpper to do it.  the 
scrapper sells componants and is interested in selling the drives, they 
low-level all scsi devices anyways at their facility, but the company that 
has them in the warehouse wants them non bootable before they leave the place.

I was thinking of telling them to dd a meg of /dev/null on to the drive...



At 07:12 AM 5/11/01 +0000, you wrote:
>  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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