>Mark Jacobs wrote: >If you want more or less certified method, you need to buy something. >Degausser is "most certified", but it destroys your disks. <g>
Somewhat tangential to the issue of mainframe drives, it is interesting that, for ATA PC drives, there is another alternative. See: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=129&tag=nl.e540 In this article, written by Robin Harris of ZDNet, there is detailed a little-known fact about ATA drives. Most of these drives (since 2001) have a built-in facility to completely erase the drive, called 'Secure Erase.' In most cases this facility has been disabled (by BIOS) ... The article outlines how to take advantage of 'Secure Erase.' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
