Re: DOD Disk wiping on AIX & SSA drives...?

On 10/2/06, Barnhart, Troy <TBarnhart@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

I've been searching for options for DOD-Wiping of SSA drives via AIX...



I had to do this for a government customer decomissioning an old M80 with 2
drawers of SSA, and the 'bcwipe' utility that the DOD suggested would not
run properly on AIX.

We ended up getting approval to simply do the low-level format (SSA Diags) 3
or 5 (can't remember which) times on each drive.

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