Whats the best way to wipe a SCSI disk on ProLiant DL380

[Mark-Hodge]

We are selling off our old kit and I need to wipe the SCSI disks prior to the servers being sold to one of our other companies.

Is there a tool which I can use, usually on desktops I use disk tools to wipe the drive and write zeros.

But those tools cant see out SCSI drives for some reason.

[Modris Bremze]

http://www.dban.org/about seems to be a good tool for securely wiping disks.

[Johan Guldmyr · Accepted solution]

Quite possibly that is beacuse the tool does not have the drivers for the SCSI controller.

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1378188

Asks the same thing but for an ML350.

Some seems to recommend running dd on a linux machine.

See http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2004-September/005686.html for more examples.

[TTr]

The disks on your DL380 are probably attached to a raid controller. No software tools or drivers can see the disks behind a raid controller, the OS itself can not see the disks either. The disks are attached to a separate system, which is the raid controller. The OS sees whatever logical drives the raid controller presents out.

You would need to attach the disks to a simple scsi controller and only then they would be seen by the OS or any erasing tools.

[Mark-Hodge]

Thanks everyone for the information.

Can anyone recommend a cheap simple scsi controller?

[marcus1234]

hmm mark boot from smart start cd 8.3 i recall a erase utility there

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[Mark-Hodge]

But will using the smart start CD write zeros to each of the drives?

[marcus1234]

as i recall it says it erases data,,

but if you this often an dhave many disks and valuable data
this may be a viable fast option

http://www.destructdata.com/scsi_hammer_harddrive_erase.html