Re: scrubbing hard drives ??

On Monday 11 July 2005 09:26, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> 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.

I recently discarded of some DLT tapes. In the cartridge, those are would
around a central spindle. After demag'ing them, I took apart the cartridges
and used my serated knife to cut from the outside all the way into the
spindle. Ended up with several thousdan 5-7 inch pieces of backup tape. If
anyone can get data off of those, they deserve it! :)

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