[SunHELP] Wiping Sparc harddrives

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> 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...

  As long as you dd garbage to sectors 0 - 31 of cylinder 0, they should be able
to satisfy the warehouse people.  I just hope that the previous owners of these
units is either the warehouse people themselves or customers that realize 
that their old hardware isn't being handled properly.

 -david

> > 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