[luau] FYI: DOD donated PC's

[Taylor Cody Civ SAIC/PETS]

This is true.  So I told the custodians to drop the drives off at my shop
and I would take care of it.  I opend up our shop PC's and put four drives
on each and let them run over night.  It isn't something you can do at the
last minute, thats for sure.  Cody

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Zidek [mailto:z-man at hawaii.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 5:40 PM
To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
Subject: Re: [luau] FYI: DOD donated PC's


Regarding the DOD clean drives.  It is true their are several programs
out their that can clean unclassified hard disks so they can be give to
schools. The main problem is time.  Using the program given to us by
base communications it took almost 12 hours to clean one 10 gig drive to
DOD standards.  Yes it runs on a floppy so a few machines can be hooked
up at one time and let run over night.  You can see though how this is a
pain and if the security custodian doesn't care about the donation it
will be easier to do nothing with them or junk the drives.  Jeff Zidek