14 Aug
2007
14 Aug
'07
4:29 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:33:53PM +0200, Nils Vogels wrote:
Hey Oskar!
On 8/13/07, Oskar Pienkos oskar_pienkos@sfu.ca wrote:
Hello,
I'm decommissioning my old 740 running Ontapp 6.2.2 and would like to wipe the disk content. Any ideas how can I do it?
I'd boot into maintenance mode and choose to reinitialise disks and reinstall ONTAP. On ONTAP versions 7 that's menu choice 4.
How well does this erase the contents? Is it all overwritten? How often? Or is it just a reformat of some kind that only rewrites the meta data?
What does 'disk zero spares' actually do?
One time, when I really needed to be sure the data was gone forever, I reformatted the disks to 512 bps an ran wipe on them (http://wipe.sourceforge.net/)
TIA,
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Bert Kiers
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