topic Re: VA7100 SCRUB in Disk Enclosures

VA7100 SCRUB

Nobody's Hero — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:51:47 GMT

I rented a VA7100 for a PeopleSoft conversion and it worked great. Now I want to ship it back. What is the best way to remove data drom the disks. The data is private medical records. I need to insure that the data is physically gone. What process should I follow? Should I do anything else besides delete the LUNs via SDM Commandview GUI?

Re: VA7100 SCRUB

Vincent Farrugia — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:03:49 GMT

Hello,

On the VAs, you cannot physically access a single harddisk at a time, so by removing the LUNs you are already pretty safe about your data security (or lack of it).

However, you can be sure of your data being removed by creating a LUN the size of your harddisks put together and putting in junk data. You can do this using the dd command, or using destructive diagnostics on the LUN from mstm.

HTH,
Vince

Re: VA7100 SCRUB

Yogeeraj_1 — Sat, 10 Aug 2002 05:32:53 GMT

hi,
Mr. vincent is right.

to be dead sure. create new luns and put in junk data.

hope this helps!
best regards
Yogeeraj

Re: VA7100 SCRUB

Mike_305 — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:06:20 GMT

Hi Robert,

Create a device file call zero and remove the disk label.

mknod /dev/zero c 3 0x000004

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2 bs=1b count=16

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Mike