Re: scrubbing hard drives ??

From: Matthew Schumacher <schu@schu.net>
Date: Mon Jul 11 2005 - 09:26:54 AKDT

Royce Williams wrote:
> Tom wrote, On 7/11/2005 6:20 AM:
>
>
>>>On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 21:04 -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
>>>What should non-Linux people do for a quick wipe before donating the box?
>>
>>http://dban.sourceforge.net - DBAN is a simple linux boot floppy (or CD)
>>that does various diskwipe routines, from simple zeroing to the
>>seventeen-pass military grade stuff. Works quite well...
>
>
> Gotta heartily side with Tom on this one. Passing "autonuke" to the
> boot prompt does a short DoD wipe of all detected drives without
> additional user intervention -- and the floppy can be removed after
> the wipe starts. The boot prompt explains the options pretty clearly.
> I've had success giving this floppy to non-technical types, and I've
> never heard anything back other than "it worked great!"

Anything like this for tapes? It seems I have this problem once every
two years, when I replace some of my tapes. So far I have been using
the the 300WinMag method of destruction, but wiping may be cheaper and
you can do it without ear plugs.

schu
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