Wipe disk drives.

[Artyom Voronchihin]

Hello!

You can also use mediainit command (man mediainit(1) for further info).
Example:
# mediainit /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0

[baiju_3 · Accepted solution]

One suggestion ,

mediainit is low level format , not recommened.

thx,
bl.

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

In addition to the proposed ideas you can just copy a system disk onto the "data" drives.
dd if=/dev/rdsk/cXXXX of=/dev/rdsk/cYYYY bs=32768k

HTH

[Sheriff Andy]

If you truly want to wipe the disks then you need to use dd & not pvcreate.

Look up KB doc ID KBRC00010654. This might be of some assistance as it was for us.

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

I think dd will suffice for what You want, it will overwrite the whole disks with zeroes and a regular computer user (like You, me, and 90% of us)won't be able to recover anything from it.

Otherwise see the attachment to my post in this older thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=957297

[the9volt]

great information.. this is from 2005.. can we get some updated insctructions for those of us who are not using Linux too.

[Torsten.]

Open your own thread please.

[the9volt]

A new thread was unnecessary.  You can wipe drives from opening the same menu from bootup. it's just really slow with the HP utility.  If you can get into an OS setting I recomend that, HP's wiping tool is slow AF

[the9volt]

Also HP's ILOM web interface on gen9 does not work.  You can't open a console via the web interface.  You have to download the ilom utility from here:

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?swItemId=MTX_4f842ceb31cf48d392e22705a8

Upon bootup select the F10/intelligent configuration option then choose smart storage administrator.  Browse through the storage administrator tool and there is an "erase drive" option where you can select how many passes to meet DOD standards.

it'd be nice if official forum personnel could give answers like that =P