VMS Drive Cleanup Assist

Adrian Graham witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk
Wed Oct 26 16:49:45 CDT 2005




On 26/10/05 22:18, "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:

> NO!  That will destroy your drives permanently.  If you do that,
> you'll erase the servo data, which means that all you have left is a
> paperweight. 

Wrong choice of words for me, I meant the way to properly erase. For a
company shipping a retired system out the door there isn't really a way of
convincing them that once a drive is initialised by the OS it's not possible
to get the data back so it's usually easier to leave the drives behind.

A




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