Patent ID: 8082403
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for certifying erasure of data from a data storage disk drive unit comprising the steps of: identifying that one or more data storage disk drive are failing; wherein each of the one or more data storage disk drive are located in one or more machines; providing a server having a host bus adapter with a software program capable of enabling the host bus adapter to selectively erase one or more of the failing disk drive units in the disk drive enclosure by communication of the server's software program capable of selectively erasing to the disk array enclosure by the host bus adapter of the server; wherein the server has an enclosure and wherein the host bus adapter is accessible via an externally accessible disk enclosure, wherein the externally accessible disk enclosure is external from the server enclosure and wherein the externally accessible disk enclosure facilitates disk drives to be inserted and removed from the disk enclosure; removing the one or more failing data storage disk drives that are failing from the one or more machines; inserting the one or more failing data storage disk drives to be erased into the disk enclosure external to the server; wherein the failing data storage disk is capable of communication with the host bus adapter; erasing the inserted the one or more failing data storage disk drives, wherein the erasure of the one or more failing data storage disk drives may be cotemporaneous; wherein the software program communicates with the host bus adapter causing the host bus adapter to erase the failing data storage disk drive; wherein the server is enabled to have disks inserted while the server is on and erase the disks without rebooting the server; and creating, with the software program, a printable file indicating that the failing data storage disk drive unit has been erased, wherein the printable file is usable to show that the data storage disk drive unit has been erased.