IBM N Series Hardware Guide

Chapter 13. Disk sanitization 185
If you must cancel the sanitization process, use the disk sanitize abort command. If the
specified disks are undergoing the disk formatting phase of sanitization, the abort does not
occur until the disk formatting is complete. At that time, Data ONTAP displays a message that
the sanitization was stopped.
If the sanitization process is interrupted by power failure, system panic, or by the user, the
sanitization process must be repeated from the beginning.
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]

IBM N Series Specifications

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Model	N Series
Category	Storage
Language	English