On 04/12/2007, David Anderson <lists@???> wrote:
> I have a couple of dozen old hard drives that I would like to wipe. I
> will be mounting the drives in an external usb enclosure, and would
> like to run some DOD standard wipe program from Suse, rather than
> trying to plug the drive into the machine and booting from floppy, etc.
>
> Can anyone recommend something please?
>
> Regards
> David
>
I would recommend hdderase.
It does everything for you.
It uses ATA hardware commands to render data useless. Faster and safer
than any software method. Erases HPA and DCO areas and remapped 'bad
sectors'.
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml
James
