About 18 months ago we consolidated an HP3000 967/RX onto a 969/220 and
then donated the 967 to some school.  We did have to 'scrub' the disk
drives and I used the following method:

1. Purged the desired accounts

2. Moved the remaining files to LDEV 1 and 2 (used MPEX. Restore can also
be directed to restore to specific devices)

3. Created a unique device class for each one of the remaining disk drives
(had to use Volutil).

4. Built an Image database consisting of a single master and a single
detail sets, where the capacity of the detail was large enough to occupy
the entire drive (most of the drive).

5. Purged and rebuilt the database a second time.

6. Repeated steps 4 and 5 for each of the drives.

The above scheme relies upon dbutil's functionality of initializing the
space allocated to a database to binary zeroes.  I had also determined what
the capacity should be for different disk drives.  I've had some difficulty
in 'locating' the schema that I had used, I'll post it when I find it.

Regards
Paul Christidis


HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 08/11/2004
10:19:28 AM:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if it is all possible to install the old SCSI drives
> from my HP 3000 in a PC.  If it's possible, what SCSI card(s) and cables
> would be necessary?  This would be for the purpose of completely
> scrubbing the drives to DoD 5220-22.M specifications, on the cheap.
>
> What kind of drives are they?  Not sure.  I'm not a hardware person, at
> least w.r.t. the 3000.  DSTAT reports the following drives:  ST15150N,
> C2490AM, C3010M1, ST34573WD, ST34371W.
>
> Although I won't be doing this operation for at least a year, I would
> like to get an idea of how much this will cost.  If I can't put the
> drives in a PC, we'll need to find an HP 3000 application that can wipe
> the drives, or get an outside provider to degauss them (which isn't
> preferable, because I would like the drives to be usable afterward).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Art Frank
> Manager of Information Systems
> OHSU Foundation
> [log in to unmask]
> (503) 220-8320
>
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