[SunHELP] Wiping Sparc harddrives

Jan Johansson sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon May 14 08:15:27 CDT 2001


On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:22:27PM -0700, Bran Tregare wrote:
>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.

If the data is sensetive and noone else should use the disk I
would suggest a nail gun and/or a strong electric magnet (by
strong I mean one powerfull enough to bend the disks).





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