Secure data deletion for devices by using stand-alone diagnostics

Use stand-alone diagnostics to complete secure data deletion for disk drives, solid-sate drives, NVMe devices, and RDX removable disk drives.

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Secure data deletion for disk drives, solid-state drives, NVMe devices, and RDX removable disk drives can be completed by using stand-alone diagnostics on 9008-22L, 9009-22A, 9009-41A, 9009-42A, 9040-MR9, 9080-M9S, 9223-22H, and 9223-42H systems.

Note: If your system is a 9008-22L or if your system has only IFL processor cores, one of the IFL processor cores must be converted to a general-purpose processor core to load and run stand-alone diagnostics. For more information about running stand-alone diagnostics on systems that have only IFL processor cores, see the Diagnostics for systems that have only Power IFL processor cores section in the General diagnostic information topic.

If your system has 2 GB of memory or more, use the AIX® 7.2 stand-alone diagnostics ISO image CD7241.iso, or later. Otherwise, use the AIX 7.1 based diagnostics ISO image CD71541.iso, or later. You can download the ISO image for stand-alone diagnostics from the Standalone Diagnostics CD website.

Note: AIX stand-alone diagnostics can be used to complete secure data deletion for devices from IBM® AIX, IBM i, or Linux® partitions.