Dban works great on pc's. I use it at work. I didn't even know that there was a version that supposedly worked on ppc. What about booting into a flavor of linux to format drives?-Jonas
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Brian Christmas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 27/01/2009, at 4:07 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > G'day Bruce > > From the dim, dark recesses of my feeble mind I remember reading > somewhere that Apple tried a 4 and 8 pass choice, but 4 passes did not > fully erase the drive, hence the only choice of 8 passes for a full, > secure erasure when disposing of a drive, and a single pass if you > intended to re-use the drive yourself. > > Might be faster to D&D (dismantle and destroy). > > Regards > > Santa > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
