Wiping AIX SSA disk drives to DOE standard 1

[jimgarza]

I have some IBM SSA Drive enclosures that we are getting rid of but I need to wipe the drives before we un-install the hard ware. I found a command line at ibm THAT should wipe the drives but I just can't seem to get the command to work. The IBM command line is as follows:
diag -c -d <devicename> -T -s erase -a wite -P <comma sepreated list of patterns>

everytime I key in the command I get the > less than sign instead of the # prompt sign, and then nothing happens.

ANy ideads as to what I am doing wrong?
appreciate any help.

jimgarza

 

[AndrewTait]

The command I believe you need is:

diag -c -d<devicename> -T format

For further information please see the following links:

http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/cmds/aixcmds2/diag.htm

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/AIX-L/2005-09/0043.html

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And we never even know we have the key

 

[bambock]

Do you happen to know whether this wipes the drive? I will be doing the same thing soon, and was planning on taking the drives out of the array and dropping them in another system and performing a DOE grade wipe with DBAN.

core

 

[AndrewTait]

As far as I am aware, it low level formats the disk. I have run this on a number of systems, and it takes some time even on a small (circa 9GB) disk. I would therefore assume it writes to the disk in all sectors.

However, in order to cover my backside, I have never tried to recover any of the data of such a disk, just reused it straight away!

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[mrn]

See

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/ToolsUnixGeneral.html#scrub

Mike

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