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PhilG327

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February 17th, 2011 11:00

Overwrite/Wipe Drives in PowerEdge ?

What does everyone use to wipe (and I mean "wipe" as in overwrite) hard drives in a PowerEdge 1950 with the PERC 6/i controller ? Most of the free tools won't recognize the drives on a RAID controller. I usually use the trick to change the RAID array to another RAID configuration (i.e. RAID #1 to a RAID #0) and initialize the drive in the RAID configuration software, but this time I want to be able to say I overwrote the entire drive to government DOD specs. What does everyone use ?

g_moore

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February 18th, 2011 10:00

You could boot to a Linux live CD, such as OMSA Live (http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/). Mount the local hard drive and use dd to write zeroes to the entire disk.

something like:
#dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

PhilG327

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February 18th, 2011 11:00

Excellent idea. I forgotten all about OMSA Live plus I don't expect drivers will be an issue. I will try that within the hour. Thank you.

PhilG327

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February 22nd, 2011 08:00

Thank you. Using the OMSALive DVD did allow me to use the DD command. Nice

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