Results
The specified disks are sanitized and designated as hot spares. The serial
numbers of the sanitized disks are written to /etc/sanitized_disks.
Examples
The following command applies the default three disk sanitization overwrite
patterns for one cycle (for a total of three overwrites) to the specified disks,
8a.6, 8a.7, and 8a.8:
disk sanitize start 8a.6 8a.7 8a.8
The following command would result in three disk sanitization overwrite
patterns for six cycles (for a total of 18 overwrites) to the specified disks:
disk sanitize start -c 6 8a.6 8a.7 8a.8
Changes to the Software Setup Guide
Additional information has become available since the last revision of the Data
ONTAP 7-Mode Software Setup Guide.
v “Correction to the setup password rules”
Correction to the setup password rules
The password rules in the tables in the “Required storage system information”
and the “CIFS protocol information” sections have been updated.
The following password rules are for initial setup for all accounts when
security.passwd.rules.enable is set to on, which is the default value:
v The password must be at least eight characters long.
v The password must contain at least one number.
v The password must contain at least two alphabetic characters.
v The password must not contain the Ctrl-c or Ctrl-d key combination or the
two-character string ^D.
Changes to the High-Availability Configuration Guide
There are some changes to the existing content of the Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode
High-Availability Configuration Guide.
v “Hardware-assisted takeover support on systems that use Service
Processor” on page 133
v “Corrections to the example in "Monitoring HA pair status" topic” on page
133
132 IBM System Storage N series: Data ONTAP 8.0.4 7-Mode Release Notes