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Operating Systems Solaris What do you use to wipe your disks? Post 302099227 by sparcguy on Sunday 10th of December 2006 09:07:36 PM

12-10-2006

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Firstly - before you wipe the data off or drill thru your old disk you have to understand the following.

Sun claims warranty from hardisk manufacturer, if your disk crashes sun engineers comes in or your vendor comes in to do a replacement but they have instructions to take back your old disks so that they can claim warranty from sun who in turn will go back to the disk manufacturer and claim warranty from them. So in other words you need to return the disk to sun.

The good news is, it is possible to "own" the disk but arrangement has to be made with sun that when a disk crashes they bring in a replacement but not take back the crashed disk but you need to inform your vendor or Sun that your site has such a security policy.

the bad news is I think there is some fees involved from your side to "buy" back your old disks.

Previously I worked in a organisation where we drilled thru any disk that crashed so we had to buy back our disks. I'm not sure if you wiped the disks you still have to pay or not.

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mkqdisk

mkqdisk(8)						      Quorum Disk Management							mkqdisk(8)

NAME

       mkqdisk - Cluster Quorum Disk Utility

WARNING

       Use of this command can cause the cluster to malfunction.

SYNOPSIS

       mkqdisk [-?|-h] | [-L] | [-f label] [-c device  -l label] [-d [-d ...]]

DESCRIPTION

       The mkqdisk command is used to create a new quorum disk or display existing quorum disks accessible from a given cluster node.

OPTIONS

       -c device -l label
	      Initialize  a new cluster quorum disk.  This will destroy all data on the given device.  If a cluster is currently using that device
	      as a quorum disk, the entire cluster will malfunction.  Do not run this on an active cluster  when  qdiskd  is  running.	 Only  one
	      device  on  the  SAN should ever have the given label; using multiple different devices is currently not supported (it is expected a
	      RAID array is used for quorum disk redundancy).  The label can be any textual string up to 127 characters - and is therefore  enough
	      space to hold a UUID created with uuidgen(1).

       -f label
	      Find the cluster quorum disk with the given label and display information about it.

       -L     Display information on all accessible cluster quorum disks.

       -d     Increase debugging level.  Specify multiple times for more information.  Currently, specifying more than twice has no effect.

SEE ALSO

       qdisk(5), qdiskd(8), uuidgen(1)

								     July 2006								mkqdisk(8)