From: hoffman@xdelta.zko.dec.nospam
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 11:35 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Initializing all drives


In article <j5p0iskb89osonipkuh4v1ls6q3evmjm4e@4ax.com>, Jay T. McCanta <jmccanta@immunex.com> writes:
:I have several vaxen that need to have their disks wiped before we
:donate the  A bootable OpenVMS VAX environment is available on current

  From the ATW posting of this question:

	--

  OpenVMS VAX CD distribution kits, via a bootstrap into root
  [SYS1].  Use the console command:

    >>> B/R5:10000000 ddcu:

  Alternatively, load the required saveset onto an initialized
  disk, and bootstrap that, and then use that to initialize
  (INIT/ERASE) the original system disk.

  The OpenVMS Wizard will assume that you are aware that folks
  with sufficient money and sufficient interest can potentially
  recover at least some the data that is "left" on the target
  disk after an INIT/ERASE pass.  This is not particularly easy,
  nor is this particularly cheap.  It is, however conceivably
  possible.

 --------------------------- pure personal opinion ---------------------------
   Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman   OpenVMS Engineering   hoffman#xdelta.zko.dec.com