i've been tasked with securely wiping our old server drives. These drives used to be in various servers, i suspect Netfinities -- cannot tell, because i just grab 'em out of a crate. However, they will connect with an Adaptec 7895 backplane in a Netfinity 5000, so that's what i have to try to wipe them with.
The IBM ServeRAID BIOS sees the drive(s), but only if i go into the mini-config. During boot (without going into mini-config), the ServeRAID BIOS lists 0 Logical drives.
Basically, when i try to go into DBAN interactive, it tells me that non-fatal errors have occurred and saves a log file. (below)
i tried WIPEDRV, but it sees no drive. FDISK sees no drive. i read the FAQ here, and i do not have an option for HostRAID in either the ServeRAID BIOS or the Adaptec Configuration (after seeing the Adaptec card, "SCSI BIOS not loaded!" always appears, anyway).
i was hoping i could use DBAN to just nuke up to 4 or 5 drives at a time (fill the backplane, boot the DBAN floppy, and let it have at with no worries about wiping a needed drive). Is this possible, or do i need to be looking at something else? Since WIPEDRV doesn't work, i'm at a loss as to what to do.
DBAN.TXT
[2008/06/09 12:38:06] dban: Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.7 started.
[2008/06/09 12:38:06] dban: Found floppy drive /dev/floppy/0.
[2008/06/09 12:38:07] dban: Found 0 seed files on the floppy disk.
[2008/06/09 12:38:12] dban: Wipe started.
[2008/06/09 12:38:12] dban: DBAN finished with non-fatal errors. The disks were not properly wiped, or there were verification errors.
DWIPE.TXT
[2008/06/09 12:38:12] dwipe: notice: Program loaded.
[2008/06/09 12:38:12] dwipe: notice: Opened entropy source '/dev/urandom'.
[2008/06/09 12:38:12] dwipe: error: Storage devices not found.
DMESG.TXT
Linux version 2.4.33-dban (dajhorn@vmsarge) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #3 Fri Aug 11 20:57:36 EDT 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009d000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009d000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fffc380 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc380 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131068
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126972 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/rc nuke="dwipe" silent BOOT_IMAGE=kernel.bzi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 598.438 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1192.75 BogoMIPS
Memory: 514904k/524272k available (1779k kernel code, 8972k reserved, 661k data, 356k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd61c, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:0f.1
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Starting kswapd
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 512 blocksize
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.28)
HP CISS Driver (v 2.4.60)
v2.3 : Micro Memory(tm) PCI memory board block driver
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Aug 11 2006 20:59:07)
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
<Adaptec aic7895 Ultra SCSI adapter>
aic7895C: Ultra Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
i've been tasked with securely wiping our old server drives. These drives used to be in various servers, i suspect Netfinities -- cannot tell, because i just grab 'em out of a crate. However, they will connect with an Adaptec 7895 backplane in a Netfinity 5000, so that's what i have to try to wipe them with.
The IBM ServeRAID BIOS sees the drive(s), but only if i go into the mini-config. During boot (without going into mini-config), the ServeRAID BIOS lists 0 Logical drives.
Basically, when i try to go into DBAN interactive, it tells me that non-fatal errors have occurred and saves a log file. (below)
i tried WIPEDRV, but it sees no drive. FDISK sees no drive. i read the FAQ here, and i do not have an option for HostRAID in either the ServeRAID BIOS or the Adaptec Configuration (after seeing the Adaptec card, "SCSI BIOS not loaded!" always appears, anyway).
i was hoping i could use DBAN to just nuke up to 4 or 5 drives at a time (fill the backplane, boot the DBAN floppy, and let it have at with no worries about wiping a needed drive). Is this possible, or do i need to be looking at something else? Since WIPEDRV doesn't work, i'm at a loss as to what to do.
DBAN.TXT
[2008/06/09 12:38:06] dban: Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.7 started.
[2008/06/09 12:38:06] dban: Found floppy drive /dev/floppy/0.
[2008/06/09 12:38:07] dban: Found 0 seed files on the floppy disk.
[2008/06/09 12:38:12] dban: Wipe started.
[2008/06/09 12:38:12] dban: DBAN finished with non-fatal errors. The disks were not properly wiped, or there were verification errors.
DWIPE.TXT
[2008/06/09 12:38:12] dwipe: notice: Program loaded.
[2008/06/09 12:38:12] dwipe: notice: Opened entropy source '/dev/urandom'.
[2008/06/09 12:38:12] dwipe: error: Storage devices not found.
DMESG.TXT
Linux version 2.4.33-dban (dajhorn@vmsarge) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #3 Fri Aug 11 20:57:36 EDT 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009d000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009d000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fffc380 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc380 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131068
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126972 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/rc nuke="dwipe" silent BOOT_IMAGE=kernel.bzi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 598.438 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1192.75 BogoMIPS
Memory: 514904k/524272k available (1779k kernel code, 8972k reserved, 661k data, 356k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd61c, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:0f.1
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Starting kswapd
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 512 blocksize
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.28)
HP CISS Driver (v 2.4.60)
v2.3 : Micro Memory(tm) PCI memory board block driver
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Aug 11 2006 20:59:07)
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
<Adaptec aic7895 Ultra SCSI adapter>
aic7895C: Ultra Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
scsi2 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
<Adaptec aic7895 Ultra SCSI adapter>
aic7895C: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
ips 00:01.0:Warning ! ! ! ServeRAID Version Mismatch
ips 00:01.0:Bios = 4.70.17, Firmware = 3.82.11, Device Driver = 7.10.18
ips 00:01.0:These levels should match to avoid possible compatibility problems.
scsi3 : IBM PCI ServeRAID 7.10.18 Build 731 <ServeRAID 3H>
Vendor: IBM Model: SERVERAID Rev: 1.00
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: SDR Model: GEM200 Rev: 2
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
IBM MCA SCSI: Version 4.0b
IBM MCA SCSI: No Microchannel-bus present --> Aborting.
This machine does not have any IBM MCA-bus
or the MCA-Kernel-support is not enabled!
PCI: Enabling device 00:06.0 (0056 -> 0057)
PCI: Enabling device 00:06.1 (0056 -> 0057)
DC390: 0 adapters found
megaraid: v1.18k (Release Date: Thu Aug 28 10:05:11 EDT 2003)
megaraid: no BIOS enabled.
aec671x_detect:
GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
3w-xxxx: No cards found.
nsp32: loading...
libata version 1.20 loaded.
Fusion MPT base driver 2.05.16
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 LSI Logic Corporation
mptbase: 0 MPT adapters found, 0 installed.
Fusion MPT SCSI Host driver 2.05.16
I2O Core - (C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
I2O: Event thread created as pid 12
I2O configuration manager v 0.04.
(C) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
I2O Block Storage OSM v0.9
(c) Copyright 1999-2001 Red Hat Software.
i2o_block: Checking for Boot device...
i2o_block: Checking for I2O Block devices...
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 156k freed
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 356k freed
Then there's a directory called PROC, but no txt files that i can see. If that also needs to be uploaded, let me know.
Thanks!