On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:02 AM, Bob Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: "Greg London"<[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:18:12 -0400 > > I have no idea what the signaling looks like on that 4wire connector > between the platters and controller electronics, but it would seem to > me that the right bit of hardware hooked directly to those 4 wires > would be the best way to wipe a drive. If you drive random data onto > the data wire and slowly work the head from the inside to the outside > track, you would wipe out formatting data, hidden sectors, sectors > marked as bad, etc. That's what ATA Secure Erase is supposed to do. It is horrible how ATA nature as a synchronous protocol (the answer arrives back effectively instantly) is being perverted when you have to wait 78 minutes for an answer. Best -F _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi at acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
