Re: Alpha 1200 BIOS
From: Nic Clews (sendspamhere_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 06/03/04
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:17:35 +0100
number1@writeme.com wrote:
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> I have inherited a project of wiping out the drives on an AlphaServer
> 1200 and an AlphaServer 4100. I could wipe out the drives of both
> systems with ARCINST if I could upgrade the BIOS on the 1200. The only
> BIOS I find on HP are for x86 systems so I suspect they won’t work on
> the Alpha. In any case, the Alpha doesn’t see the .sys files when I
> try to upgrade the BIOS.
If these are VMS systems, or with the VMS operating system installed,
you could boot the operating system CD to give you access to the
INIT/ERASE & etc. set of commands (please see discussion in comp.os.vms
for the relative security of this versus physical media destruction),
or, you could also boot the operating system, clear a disk under normal
operating system control, install a minimum operating system to that
disk (I always use @SYS$UPDATE:STABACKIT to do this 'cos I forget the
longhand command), then boot that to erase the remainder of the disks.
You could possibly/probably transplant the drives from one system to
another to complete the task.
-- Regards, Nic Clews a.k.a. Mr. CP Charges, CSC Computer Sciences nclews at csc dot com
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