Am Mon, 13 Jul 2015 01:50:57 +0000 schrieb "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@bellsouth.net>:
> All that has been said on this thread supposes that the hard drive is still > readable and writable. > > But the original post stated this was a failed drive. > > Then you might not be able to dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx .. or whatever else. > > You would be stopped by bad sectors. The two drives I'm referring to here failed in the sense that they have no more reallocation sectors available. Perhaps that will make it difficult to wipe them properly, but they were fine mechanically when I removed them. -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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