Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
Log on as CE user and do a de-install of the box then all tables are cleared 2011/2/26 Ted MacNEIL > >Does anyone have any thoughts on the cache? Do I need to worry about > clearing that? > > No. > > >If so, does anyone have any ideas on how to do that? > > Just turn it (the C/U) off. > > - > Ted MacNEIL > eamacn...@yahoo.ca > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Met vriendelijke groeten/With kind regards Dick de Groot -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
>Does anyone have any thoughts on the cache? Do I need to worry about clearing >that? No. >If so, does anyone have any ideas on how to do that? Just turn it (the C/U) off. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
Many thanks to everyone for the great discussion on this topic! Does anyone have any thoughts on the cache? Do I need to worry about clearing that? If so, does anyone have any ideas on how to do that? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McBride, Catherine Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Question about wiping a DS8100 It really depends upon how stringent the requirements are in the shop where the person who posted the original question works. Here we have some additional requirements, other shops may not. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Question about wiping a DS8100 Plus, unlike a PC drive, on the DS8100 the data is stripped over multiple drives. Making data recovery on individual drives an exercise in futility. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > At 14:34 -0600 on 02/24/2011, McBride, Catherine wrote about Re: > Question about wiping a DS8100: > > > Yes, using the web-based Storage Manager application to change the > ranks >> from one format to another will certainly work. >> I was told that changing from one format to the other 3 times would >> be best. >> > > That need to switch 3 times is based on your level of desire to > prevent recovery of your data. The first switch will remove all the > directory data and overwrite all the tracks. That makes all the data > vanish. However there are forensic methods that may be able to read > the erased data although it has been overwritten. Thus the additional > reformats (which makes the data harder to find on the drive using the > forensic methods). This is the same situation as with PC Hard Drives > and Secure Erase. You use a higher Secure Erase setting to rewrite the > tracks more times. Unless you expect that someone is going to go to > the trouble to do that level of data recovery, just removing the > directories and overwriting the tracks (so the data is no longer there for normal reading or viewing the tracks) should be enough. > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
It really depends upon how stringent the requirements are in the shop where the person who posted the original question works. Here we have some additional requirements, other shops may not. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Question about wiping a DS8100 Plus, unlike a PC drive, on the DS8100 the data is stripped over multiple drives. Making data recovery on individual drives an exercise in futility. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > At 14:34 -0600 on 02/24/2011, McBride, Catherine wrote about Re: > Question about wiping a DS8100: > > > Yes, using the web-based Storage Manager application to change the > ranks >> from one format to another will certainly work. >> I was told that changing from one format to the other 3 times would >> be best. >> > > That need to switch 3 times is based on your level of desire to > prevent recovery of your data. The first switch will remove all the > directory data and overwrite all the tracks. That makes all the data > vanish. However there are forensic methods that may be able to read > the erased data although it has been overwritten. Thus the additional > reformats (which makes the data harder to find on the drive using the > forensic methods). This is the same situation as with PC Hard Drives > and Secure Erase. You use a higher Secure Erase setting to rewrite the > tracks more times. Unless you expect that someone is going to go to > the trouble to do that level of data recovery, just removing the > directories and overwriting the tracks (so the data is no longer there for normal reading or viewing the tracks) should be enough. > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
Plus, unlike a PC drive, on the DS8100 the data is stripped over multiple drives. Making data recovery on individual drives an exercise in futility. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > At 14:34 -0600 on 02/24/2011, McBride, Catherine wrote about Re: Question > about wiping a DS8100: > > > Yes, using the web-based Storage Manager application to change the ranks >> from one format to another will certainly work. >> I was told that changing from one format to the other 3 times would be >> best. >> > > That need to switch 3 times is based on your level of desire to prevent > recovery of your data. The first switch will remove all the directory data > and overwrite all the tracks. That makes all the data vanish. However there > are forensic methods that may be able to read the erased data although it > has been overwritten. Thus the additional reformats (which makes the data > harder to find on the drive using the forensic methods). This is the same > situation as with PC Hard Drives and Secure Erase. You use a higher Secure > Erase setting to rewrite the tracks more times. Unless you expect that > someone is going to go to the trouble to do that level of data recovery, > just removing the directories and overwriting the tracks (so the data is no > longer there for normal reading or viewing the tracks) should be enough. > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
At 14:34 -0600 on 02/24/2011, McBride, Catherine wrote about Re: Question about wiping a DS8100: Yes, using the web-based Storage Manager application to change the ranks from one format to another will certainly work. I was told that changing from one format to the other 3 times would be best. That need to switch 3 times is based on your level of desire to prevent recovery of your data. The first switch will remove all the directory data and overwrite all the tracks. That makes all the data vanish. However there are forensic methods that may be able to read the erased data although it has been overwritten. Thus the additional reformats (which makes the data harder to find on the drive using the forensic methods). This is the same situation as with PC Hard Drives and Secure Erase. You use a higher Secure Erase setting to rewrite the tracks more times. Unless you expect that someone is going to go to the trouble to do that level of data recovery, just removing the directories and overwriting the tracks (so the data is no longer there for normal reading or viewing the tracks) should be enough. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
Yes, using the web-based Storage Manager application to change the ranks from one format to another will certainly work. I was told that changing from one format to the other 3 times would be best. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Stitt Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 2:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Question about wiping a DS8100 You should be able to access the user interface through a browser and delete the volumes, extent pools, ranks, etc. When you perform those operations the machine will format the disk drives. As was suggested early on, you also could change the extent pools, ranks, arrays from one format to the other (Open to CKD). That will most definitely cause a disk format and the data will be gone. On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:19:44 -0700, Nancy R. Brizuela wrote: >Hi Catherine, > >I wish our 3rd party provider had their act together like yours. I've asked him several times for suggestions or approaches--he says he'll research it, but then I never hear back! Thanks for the thought, though--you have a very helpful group here! > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On >Behalf Of McBride, Catherine >Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:40 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Re: Question about wiping a DS8100 > >You may want to check with your 3rd party maintenance provider as well. >We are in a similar situation as yours, and our 3rd party provider >presented a few options. > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On >Behalf Of Nancy R. Brizuela >Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:34 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Re: Question about wiping a DS8100 > >Thanks for such prompt responses, David, Claude, Mark, Ed, and Hal. I >neglected to mention that the DS8100 is no longer attached to a >mainframe and that we no longer have a CE. Alas, our mainframe was shipped off in a truck four or five years ago and a couple years ago our managers discovered they could save a lot of money by gong with a 3rd party maintenance provider, so we are no longer with IBM. Nevertheless, this gives me some good leads. I'll contact my former CE and investigate some of the other options. Thanks so much! > >From: Nancy R. Brizuela >Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:50 AM >To: 'IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU' >Subject: Question about wiping a DS8100 > >Hi All, > >I am new to this list. I have a DS8100 that we are decommissioning and using as a trade-in. We need to make sure that all the data on this system is erased before we ship it off. Do any of you have any thoughts on how to accomplish this at little or no expense? Has anyone already dealt with this issue? Thanks! > >Nancy Brizuela >Systems Programmer, Senior >University of Wyoming >IBM/Unix Systems Group > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
You should be able to access the user interface through a browser and delete the volumes, extent pools, ranks, etc. When you perform those operations the machine will format the disk drives. As was suggested early on, you also could change the extent pools, ranks, arrays from one format to the other (Open to CKD). That will most definitely cause a disk format and the data will be gone. On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:19:44 -0700, Nancy R. Brizuela wrote: >Hi Catherine, > >I wish our 3rd party provider had their act together like yours. I've asked him several times for suggestions or approaches--he says he'll research it, but then I never hear back! Thanks for the thought, though--you have a very helpful group here! > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McBride, Catherine >Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:40 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Re: Question about wiping a DS8100 > >You may want to check with your 3rd party maintenance provider as well. >We are in a similar situation as yours, and our 3rd party provider >presented a few options. > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Nancy R. Brizuela >Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:34 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Re: Question about wiping a DS8100 > >Thanks for such prompt responses, David, Claude, Mark, Ed, and Hal. I >neglected to mention that the DS8100 is no longer attached to a mainframe and that we no longer have a CE. Alas, our mainframe was shipped off in a truck four or five years ago and a couple years ago our managers discovered they could save a lot of money by gong with a 3rd party maintenance provider, so we are no longer with IBM. Nevertheless, this gives me some good leads. I'll contact my former CE and investigate some of the other options. Thanks so much! > >From: Nancy R. Brizuela >Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:50 AM >To: 'IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU' >Subject: Question about wiping a DS8100 > >Hi All, > >I am new to this list. I have a DS8100 that we are decommissioning and using as a trade-in. We need to make sure that all the data on this system is erased before we ship it off. Do any of you have any thoughts on how to accomplish this at little or no expense? Has anyone already dealt with this issue? Thanks! > >Nancy Brizuela >Systems Programmer, Senior >University of Wyoming >IBM/Unix Systems Group > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
Hi Catherine, I wish our 3rd party provider had their act together like yours. I've asked him several times for suggestions or approaches--he says he'll research it, but then I never hear back! Thanks for the thought, though--you have a very helpful group here! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McBride, Catherine Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Question about wiping a DS8100 You may want to check with your 3rd party maintenance provider as well. We are in a similar situation as yours, and our 3rd party provider presented a few options. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Nancy R. Brizuela Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Question about wiping a DS8100 Thanks for such prompt responses, David, Claude, Mark, Ed, and Hal. I neglected to mention that the DS8100 is no longer attached to a mainframe and that we no longer have a CE. Alas, our mainframe was shipped off in a truck four or five years ago and a couple years ago our managers discovered they could save a lot of money by gong with a 3rd party maintenance provider, so we are no longer with IBM. Nevertheless, this gives me some good leads. I'll contact my former CE and investigate some of the other options. Thanks so much! From: Nancy R. Brizuela Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:50 AM To: 'IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU' Subject: Question about wiping a DS8100 Hi All, I am new to this list. I have a DS8100 that we are decommissioning and using as a trade-in. We need to make sure that all the data on this system is erased before we ship it off. Do any of you have any thoughts on how to accomplish this at little or no expense? Has anyone already dealt with this issue? Thanks! Nancy Brizuela Systems Programmer, Senior University of Wyoming IBM/Unix Systems Group -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
You may want to check with your 3rd party maintenance provider as well. We are in a similar situation as yours, and our 3rd party provider presented a few options. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Nancy R. Brizuela Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Question about wiping a DS8100 Thanks for such prompt responses, David, Claude, Mark, Ed, and Hal. I neglected to mention that the DS8100 is no longer attached to a mainframe and that we no longer have a CE. Alas, our mainframe was shipped off in a truck four or five years ago and a couple years ago our managers discovered they could save a lot of money by gong with a 3rd party maintenance provider, so we are no longer with IBM. Nevertheless, this gives me some good leads. I'll contact my former CE and investigate some of the other options. Thanks so much! From: Nancy R. Brizuela Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:50 AM To: 'IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU' Subject: Question about wiping a DS8100 Hi All, I am new to this list. I have a DS8100 that we are decommissioning and using as a trade-in. We need to make sure that all the data on this system is erased before we ship it off. Do any of you have any thoughts on how to accomplish this at little or no expense? Has anyone already dealt with this issue? Thanks! Nancy Brizuela Systems Programmer, Senior University of Wyoming IBM/Unix Systems Group -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
Thanks for such prompt responses, David, Claude, Mark, Ed, and Hal. I neglected to mention that the DS8100 is no longer attached to a mainframe and that we no longer have a CE. Alas, our mainframe was shipped off in a truck four or five years ago and a couple years ago our managers discovered they could save a lot of money by gong with a 3rd party maintenance provider, so we are no longer with IBM. Nevertheless, this gives me some good leads. I'll contact my former CE and investigate some of the other options. Thanks so much! From: Nancy R. Brizuela Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:50 AM To: 'IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU' Subject: Question about wiping a DS8100 Hi All, I am new to this list. I have a DS8100 that we are decommissioning and using as a trade-in. We need to make sure that all the data on this system is erased before we ship it off. Do any of you have any thoughts on how to accomplish this at little or no expense? Has anyone already dealt with this issue? Thanks! Nancy Brizuela Systems Programmer, Senior University of Wyoming IBM/Unix Systems Group -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:04 PM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote: > Nancy, > > I believe the ICKDSF TRKFMT command will do what you need. It has an Erase > parameter. > > David O'Brien > NIH Contractor That is what we do. It writes 3 patterns, Repeating 00's, 11's, and 01's for the whole track. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
Ask your friendly CE. I am told that they have effective ways to sanitize the unit. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Nancy R. Brizuela Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Question about wiping a DS8100 Hi All, I am new to this list. I have a DS8100 that we are decommissioning and using as a trade-in. We need to make sure that all the data on this system is erased before we ship it off. Do any of you have any thoughts on how to accomplish this at little or no expense? Has anyone already dealt with this issue? Thanks! Nancy Brizuela Systems Programmer, Senior University of Wyoming IBM/Unix Systems Group -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
Probably just convert LCU to what it isn't; i.e., if it's MVS cnvt to *Nix, if it's *Nix cnvt to MVS. CE has wiping tool but they charge depending on contract fine print. In a message dated 2/23/2011 12:06:37 P.M. Central Standard Time, pacemainl...@gmail.com writes: Delete the CKD/FB volumes, extentpools, ranks, arrays, and arraysites. The logical pieces can't be put back together again. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
Nancy, I believe the ICKDSF TRKFMT command will do what you need. It has an Erase parameter. David O'Brien NIH Contractor -Original Message- From: Nancy R. Brizuela [mailto:brizu...@uwyo.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Question about wiping a DS8100 Hi All, I am new to this list. I have a DS8100 that we are decommissioning and using as a trade-in. We need to make sure that all the data on this system is erased before we ship it off. Do any of you have any thoughts on how to accomplish this at little or no expense? Has anyone already dealt with this issue? Thanks! Nancy Brizuela Systems Programmer, Senior University of Wyoming IBM/Unix Systems Group -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
Delete the CKD/FB volumes, extentpools, ranks, arrays, and arraysites. The logical pieces can't be put back together again. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Nancy R. Brizuela wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to this list. I have a DS8100 that we are decommissioning and > using as a trade-in. We need to make sure that all the data on this system > is erased before we ship it off. Do any of you have any thoughts on how to > accomplish this at little or no expense? Has anyone already dealt with this > issue? Thanks! > > Nancy Brizuela > Systems Programmer, Senior > University of Wyoming > IBM/Unix Systems Group > > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Question about wiping a DS8100
I believe New Era has a product that you may use, lease for not too much money that will do the trick. We did three writes across everything with different patterns when we collapsed one a couple of years ago, old DOD standards. That is the basic deed, three write patterns to erase, cover the old data. Hope that helps kinda. Claude -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Nancy R. Brizuela Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Question about wiping a DS8100 Hi All, I am new to this list. I have a DS8100 that we are decommissioning and using as a trade-in. We need to make sure that all the data on this system is erased before we ship it off. Do any of you have any thoughts on how to accomplish this at little or no expense? Has anyone already dealt with this issue? Thanks! Nancy Brizuela Systems Programmer, Senior University of Wyoming IBM/Unix Systems Group -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Question about wiping a DS8100
Hi All, I am new to this list. I have a DS8100 that we are decommissioning and using as a trade-in. We need to make sure that all the data on this system is erased before we ship it off. Do any of you have any thoughts on how to accomplish this at little or no expense? Has anyone already dealt with this issue? Thanks! Nancy Brizuela Systems Programmer, Senior University of Wyoming IBM/Unix Systems Group -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
