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From: berry@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Berry Kercheval)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Panic button SCSI disk reformat!
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Date: 30 Oct 89 18:03:42 GMT
References: <1989Oct27.222806.28576@genisco.uucp> <1989Oct29.232707.4810@world.std.com>
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In article <1989Oct29.232707.4810@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>>Have I missed any solutions?  Does anyone have something like this
>>in place?  Please mail ideas.  I will summarize if there is any
>>interest.
>Why not degauss the sucker? A suitable degausser could probably be put
>right into the shoebox/rack. It wouldn't be immediately reusable I
>don't think but it should be completely recoverable, probably after a
>brief trip back to the manufacturer. Maybe it can be reformatted
>later, I'm just not certain.

Well, here at LLNL, degaussing magnetic media is NOT considered
adequate to declassify magnetic media.  Degaussed media can be reused
in other classified projects, but to be discarded must be physically
destroyed.  You'd be amazed at what the sooks can get out of an
allegedly blank disk...

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bERRY Kercheval :: berry@lll-crg.llnl.gov