On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use Dban and shred (stick them in an old machine and take as long as > it takes) - then disable the drive (pin in the breather hole), pliers on > the power connectors. DBAN is definitely one of the better tools out there, but it has weaknesses that have to be considered. For example, it believes the drive ID and info. It uses that info to determine what needs to be done (e.g., number of sectors to be written). If the drive is working and being replaced to increase capacity, that it not a problem. But a drive being replaced due to unreliability or with intermittent errors can deceive DBAN which will happily scrub only the number of sectors reported by the corrupted firmware. So when you run it, particularly when doing batches of drives, you have to verify that the ID and drive info matches the specs on the drive. Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America (NDY) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cabaahfaqs40l35xdxxfffz+v2vzmzurefh_ky-aoq_tfzl1...@mail.gmail.com