[SunHELP] Erase Data on Disk

[ymui at royalsunalliance.ca]

Thanks a great deal, Larry !  Advise taken and it worked.



                                                                                            
                    Larry Snyder                                                            
                    <larrys at lexis-        To:     ymui at royalsunalliance.ca                  
                    nexis.com>            cc:     sunhelp at sunhelp.org                       
                                          Subject:     Re: [SunHELP] Erase Data on Disk     
                    06/03/2002                                                              
                    07:19 PM                                                                
                                                                                            
                                                                                            




A couple months back I donated some disks to a worthy cause.  I used
the purge subcommand under format to clean them up.  It takes a while,
but it writes the entire disk multiple times.
-ls-

ymui at royalsunalliance.ca wrote:
> Hello Administrators,
>
> We've to return some old SCSI disks to the dealer at the end of a lease.
>
> Just wondering any utilites available to write patterns of '1' or '0' to
> overlay any residue data on it, as they are sensitive data.
>
> Much appreicated,
> Y. Mui.
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