IBM N Series Hardware Manual page 187

Example 13-2 shows the progress of disk sanitization, starting with sanitization on drives
8a.43, 8a.44 and 8a.45. The process then formats these drives and writes a pattern (hex
0x47) multiple times (cycles) to the disks.
Example 13-2 Disk sanitization progress
Tue Jun 24 02:40:10 Disk sanitization initiated on drive 8a.43 [S/N
3FP20XX400007313LSA8]
Tue Jun 24 02:40:10 Disk sanitization initiated on drive 8a.44 [S/N
3FP0RFAZ00002218446B]
Tue Jun 24 02:40:10 Disk sanitization initiated on drive 8a.45 [S/N
3FP0RJMR0000221844GP]
Tue Jun 24 02:53:55 Disk 8a.44 [S/N 3FP0RFAZ00002218446B] format
completed in 00:13:45.
Tue Jun 24 02:53:59 Disk 8a.43 [S/N 3FP20XX400007313LSA8] format
completed in 00:13:49.
Tue Jun 24 02:54:04 Disk 8a.45 [S/N 3FP0RJMR0000221844GP] format
completed in 00:13:54.
Tue Jun 24 02:54:11 Disk 8a.44 [S/N 3FP0RFAZ00002218446B] cycle 1
pattern write of 0x47 completed in 00:00:16.
Tue Jun 24 02:54:11 Disk sanitization on drive 8a.44 [S/N
3FP0RFAZ00002218446B] completed.
Tue Jun 24 02:54:15 Disk 8a.43 [S/N 3FP20XX400007313LSA8] cycle 1
pattern write of 0x47 completed in 00:00:16.
Tue Jun 24 02:54:15 Disk sanitization on drive 8a.43 [S/N
3FP20XX400007313LSA8] completed.
Tue Jun 24 02:54:20 Disk 8a.45 [S/N 3FP0RJMR0000221844GP] cycle 1
pattern write of 0x47 completed in 00:00:16.
Tue Jun 24 02:54:20 Disk sanitization on drive 8a.45 [S/N
3FP0RJMR0000221844GP] completed.
Tue Jun 24 02:58:42 Disk sanitization initiated on drive 8a.43 [S/N
3FP20XX400007313LSA8]
Tue Jun 24 03:00:09 Disk sanitization initiated on drive 8a.32 [S/N
43208987]
Tue Jun 24 03:11:25 Disk 8a.32 [S/N 43208987] cycle 1 pattern write
of 0x47 completed in 00:11:16.
Tue Jun 24 03:12:32 Disk 8a.43 [S/N 3FP20XX400007313LSA8]
sanitization aborted by user.
Tue Jun 24 03:22:41 Disk 8a.32 [S/N 43208987] cycle 2 pattern write
of 0x47 completed in 00:11:16.
Tue Jun 24 03:22:41 Disk sanitization on drive 8a.32 [S/N 43208987]
completed.
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Chapter 13. Disk sanitization