Hello Chaim:
There is a few things you can do. If you are retiring an entire system, after moving production data to the new system, you could bring the system to the boot menu and choose 4, to re-initialize all disks.
Assuming that you don't want to wipe out all the disks associated with the sytem, then you will probably want to use the "disk" command with the "sanitize" option. The saniztize option requires a license. I have no idea how pricing for sanitize works but the command is very effective for wiping out data.
You could place the disks in the spares pool and issue "disk zero spares"
--April
----- Original Message ---- From: Chaim Rieger lists@up-south.com To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 11:16:14 AM Subject: scrub disks (how to)
we are retiring 14 shelves and would like to scrub the disks, before giving them up.
anybody got any pointers ?
(begin rant) on a side note, i think its not fair that netapp does not give a credit when returning disk shelves. (ok rant over)