Memory Clearing, Sanitization And/Or Removal Procedures - Keysight Technologies FieldFox N9912A Security Features And Volatility Documentation

Keysight Technologies FieldFox Handheld Analzers
N991xA, N992xA, and N993xA
Security Features and Volatility Documentation
6 Memory Clearing, Sanitization and/or Removal
Procedures
This section explains how to clear, sanitize, and remove memory from you
instrument for all memory that can be written to during normal operation and
for which the clearing and sanitization procedure is more than trivial such as
rebooting your instrument.
Table 6-1
Description and
purpose
Size
Memory clearing
Memory
sanitization
Memory removal
Write protecting
Memory
validation
64 MB Flash Memory
It is divided into three partitions: Keysight (42 Mb), FactoryData (2 Mb) and
UserData (20 Mb). Only the UserData partition is accessible by the user.
64 MB
Memory Erase function
The following process completely clears all user accessible memory on the
FieldFox instrument. This process requires firmware revision A.03.02 or later.
— Press the following keys:
1. System(7)
2. Service Diagnostics
3. Advanced
4. Erase User Data
5. Confirm Erase
6. Wait for the instrument to reboot and begin normal
operation.
The process will completely erase the UserData flash
memory partition and reboot the instrument. When the
reboot is completed, the instrument will be ready for
normal operation.
— Remove the main battery and external power from the FieldFox
instrument for at least two minutes. This will erase the volatile
RAM on the SOM board.
This memory can not be removed without damaging the instrument
N/A
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