Yeah, likely the distro your dban comes with is too old for your server? Grab a live cd like fedora 14, you can `yum install <...>` something and use it even if it disappears when you reboot... jlc
-----Original Message----- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 5:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: wiping drives in a RAID Lol... I'd like to do that, but we can't destroy the drives. This particular instance is giving me issues I've never seen before. If we boot the server without the DBAN CD, it will boot normally to the Windows login screen. If we boot with the DBAN CD in, I get to the DBAN screen. I hit Enter, to start the interactive session, DBAN starts loading the Linux kernal, and I get hardware error on the front panel of the server: E07F0, proc 1 IERR proc 2 IERR. These errors are pretty generic, just saying that there is an issue with the processors (Faulty of improperly installed microprocessor) >>> "Joseph L. Casale" <[email protected]> 1/3/2011 4:04 PM >>> Dban won't get to the metadata parts of the drive, but those don't store sensitive info, just controller data. What specific errors are you getting? Bottom line, if the data is sensitive, I have two 50 ton presses in the back I use:) jlc -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 4:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: wiping drives in a RAID We have some servers that we are going to survey, and they will go find a new home. We want to wipe the drives before we send them out. Specifics: Dell Poweredge 2850s, with RAID 5. We have DBAN, but we're getting hardware errors when we try to start it. I don't know if DBAN would see the drives anyway, as I don't think it would talk to the RAID controller, to be able to see the drives. What do you guys use in this type of scenario? Thanks, Joe ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
