-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Craig McLean wrote: > Hello. > > I have some HP Hardware and I need to securely erase the hard drives before > I send the servers on to their next task. I tried DBAN 2.0 but it doesn't > support the raid controllers in the HP servers. What other open source > options are out there for securely erasing server drives? > > The hardware is specifically a DL360 G4 with an embedded HP Smart Array 6i > Raid Controller. The disks are standard HP ULTRA 320 hot pluggable scsi > disks. > > I know I could disassemble the hot plug cages and put the disks into another > machine I have with a standard ULTRA 320 scsi controller, but I'd prefer to > avoid that. > > Does anybody have any ideas? > I have had a couple of machines where DBAN did not recognize the controller. What I usually do in those cases is to boot from a Ubuntu, Knoppix, or systemrescuecd live media (CD/DVD/USB pendrive etc) and do the following as root:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<target> && dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/<target> You could always use the shred util included in most of those previously mentioned live distros, I usually use the "-n 3" flag which limits shred to 3 passes. Its default of 25 takes a really long time. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkq3qdUACgkQwRXgH3rKGfMGVACcDYoJ0B4udKJNELm8ePwGncRh fjAAn0LGwOxl3TyLDNM9w4ILvGZVfafx =eM5k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
