On Friday 08 September 2006 17:03, you wrote:
> A few years ago I was doing a forensics security review for a client that
> had data that needed to be erased VERY reliably. The determination was
> that because even IDE disks did remapping internally, it would be possible
> for previously written data to be inaccessible to a program writing random
> data over the whole disk several times.
Yes. Many drives provide a manufacturer-specific API that lets you force a
low-level format, but at the portable level, there is no way to ensure this.
Cheers,
--Ian
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