SCSI Toolbox :: Newsletter - March
2004
IN
THIS EDITION For this month’s survey, the grand giveaway prize
is the envy of James Bond – a USB memory pen! Check it out –
you’ll be the coolest tech in the staff meeting with this baby!
Just take the survey and your name will be automatically entered into
the drawing for the coolest pen ever.
As an active Newsletter subscriber you
are automatically eligible to take our March Survey: Who are you?
EmailURL A. The fastest
way, if you are not required by law to use a government approved utility
such as STB’s SCSI Datascrubber,
would be to do a sequential write over the entire drive.
Introduction to PC2
What difference does cable quality and proper termination
make on a SCSI bus?
Survey for another chance to win!
Ask Dr. SCSI - "What's the fastest way to wipe a disk?"
SAS support in SCSI Toolbox
What difference does cable quality and proper
termination make on a SCSI bus?
Take a quick look at this article to see: BusTroubleshootingWithPC2.pdf
Take our March Survey for another chance to win
Congratulations to Bob Morrill at EMC for winning our February 2003 newsletter.
We appreciate all of you that participated in the February newsletter.
Ask Dr. SCSI - What's the fastest way
to wipe a disk?
Q.
What's the fastest way to wipe a disk?
If you want fast, plus a good audit trail, I would recommend a sequential Write using a random data pattern with logical block overlay, then a sequential read pass doing a data compare to insure that all blocks were indeed overwritten.
Setting this up for one or a hundred drives is simple using the SCSItoolbox Disk Manufacturing Module. In fact, follow this link to download a test sequence that will do that very thing –
http://www.scsitoolbox.com/ScryptCrypt/files/DMM/scrub.zip
Serial Attached SCSI support with the SCSItoolbox
SCSI Toolbox is happy to report that our SCSItoolbox Version 5.0 is successfully
being used to test and exercise SAS (Serial Access SCSI) subsystems at
major manufacturers across the country! If your company is moving toward
working with SAS, SCSItoolbox is the tool for you.
