Catherine, can you send me that information also i am retiring an IBM DS6800 DASD set. offline at cliffordjackson...@msn.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:46:00 -0500 > From: cmcbr...@kable.com > Subject: Re: Scrubbing DASD > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > > Depends upon which type of DASD you have. If you're using a SAN, use > the SAN's manager tools to reformat the DASD, 3 passes will do. Or, you > can have IBM come in and scrub it for you. Your regular customer > engineer can perform the reformatting at the SAN level for you. If you > truly require DoD-level cleansing and a certificate stating as such, > another division of IBM can come in and do that for you I can send you > the particulars off-list if you want them. It is expensive. > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On > Behalf Of Peter E. Carrier > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:40 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Scrubbing DASD > > Hi Folks, > > Haven't been on here in a while. I have missed you guys ;) > > MIT will finally be shutting down it's zVM systems that have been > running > remotely at Blue Hill Data's datecenter for the past couple of years. I > > am looking into what I'll need to do to do a reasonably thorough DASD > scrubbing, thorough enough to satisfy the new privacy regulations, etc. > I > assume I'll be using ICKDSF to do the dirty work, and am looking for > suggestions for which commands, how many passes, etc. to do. > > Thanks in advance! > > Peter _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3
