Does it have to be PC/i386 stuff?
I'll be helping a firm pull out some old DEC hardware next month..
Serious big-iron they are going to have to pay to get taken away if
you're really keen.
It's not been powered on since about 1990, and you'll need a truck. :-)
On 17/08/15 18:57, Peter
On Mon 17 Aug 2015 20:07:20 NZST +1200, criggie wrote:
With all respect to Molten Media, if anyone's giving away drives do
make sure they're wiped first, with something like dban rather than
a casual wipe in $OS.
dban? dd is as good as it gets.
Paranoia is a good thing.
Ha. Just came from
scrub does it for me, not heard of dban before, will 'ave to have a look...
Anyway, spare drives I have, first in first served:
PATA:
1x WD400, 40G
2x Maxtor 20.4Gb (20G? is that even a thing? :) )
1x Hitachi Deskstar 82.3Gb
SATA: (Turns out two were not as old as the others!)
1x Hitachi
On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 15:27 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Adrian Mageanu
adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote:
Errr, scratch that, I found they invented google.
Sure, but if you don't know the right words to use to describe your
problem, you won't be able
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Helmut Walle helmut.wa...@gmail.com
wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
...
If you want better security use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/zero, however
take into account that this can be slower as it does require some CPU work,
whereas /dev/zero produces the
On 18 August 2015 at 14:21, Adrian Mageanu adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote:
I can't remember where I read but there are ways to retrieve data after
a dd fill with zeroes or something else by using photorec and some
hardware forensic techniques.
The only downside with dban and nwipe is that
On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 11:50 +1000, Fraser McGlinn wrote:
On 17/08/15 21:30, Helmut Walle wrote:
And yes, for wiping disks something like
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
does the job (obviously replacing 'x' with the letter for the drive to
be wiped). Without any further arguments, this
I have an old compac rack server sitting in the garage dual power supply
one cpu though don't know the specs but it is old
On 17 August 2015 at 18:57, Peter Simmonds peter.a.simmo...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Chris Others,
I know what it's like. Would you mind keeping an eye out for exotic
Hi Chris Others,
I know what it's like. Would you mind keeping an eye out for exotic
hardware, before it goes to molten media? They tend not to know much
about what they are scrapping.
As an example, I recently pulled an ordinary looking ISA card from an
absolutely shagged old 386. This
On 17/08/15 20:11, linux-users-requ...@lists.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
I have an old compac rack server sitting in the garage dual power supply
one cpu though don't know the specs but it is old
Given Compaq stopped making servers at least 15 years ago, that box will
be a p3 xeon with maybe a
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