On Jan 26, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Charles Davis wrote:

> Hi Bruce;
> Are the G3s new enough for firewire external?
> If not, the same thing can be done with a SCSI external.
>
> Setup the external drive with a bootable OSX, boot that and run Disk
> Utility to wipe the installed drive.


Well for that I can just boot off the system CD and do it that way. My  
issue is that Disk Utility doesn't offer anything between just writing  
zeros across the drive and doing an 8-way secure erase which takes way  
too long.

--
Bruce Johnson
U of Az  College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions don't have opinions, merely customs


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