On Feb 5, 2014, at 5:30 pm, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > i have an old PowerMac G4 to dispose of and my plan is to remove all > drives, saving those big enough to use for scratch (i think they are > PATA) and take a hammer to the rest; SATA to USB adapters should be very > cheap otoh
Yeah I've thought about a USB adaptor but haven't looked at prices. I think DBAN works with them. Now that I think about it I have a dead USB drive which I think is SATA internally. If the USB side is still working I might be able to use that. One of the upsides of having to move out for our earthquake repairs is that I've been clearing out my old computer stuff. I found 5 old drives that either won't spin up or simply wouldn't talk to the host so I'll probably drill a hole through the platters just to be sure. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
