Re: complete "scrubbing" of our data from the disk

At an old job, three of us once were going to scratch and destroy some
drives in an old DEC alphaserver.  Two hours later we were still trying to
get inside the machined aluminum disk casings... they were built like
tanks!  Needless to say, it became a challenge and we spent some serious
time on it that day... later when we succeeded, one of the metallic
platters ended up in the organizations industrial/medical garbage shredder
machine (along with some tapes and other stuff).  As we were disposing of
some other stuff, the guys running the machine came back from their smoke
break and we heard "What the hell is in this machine?  TAPE???!!!".  We
explained that we thought it could handle plastic tapes and then hightailed
it before it might choke on the disk platter.  Ah... the good old days...


                                                                           
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Sledge Hammer.  Fire.



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Booth Martin

http://www.martinvt.com

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From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion

Date: 09/20/05 13:26:05

To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: complete "scrubbing" of our data from the disk



We are going to get rid of some disks.  How do I do a complete

bit-overwrite before disposal?



Regards,



Guy Henza

Tri-State Hospital Supply Corporation

301 Catrel

Howell MI 48844

fon (517) 546-5400 x1312

fax (517) 540-1513

GHenza@xxxxxxxxx


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