On Wednesday 30 August 2006 11:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 30 Aug 2006, James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So the call goes out - anyone know of anything that will do this? I > >> happy to roll-my-own boot CD etc, but I'm turning up blanks for the > >> data scrubber. It's pretty simple though (to meet the .jp > >> requirements): > >> 1. write a constant pattern to *every* sector on the drive (either 00 > >> or FF) > >> 2. log the result of #1 > >> 3. celebrate your superiority for erasing the drive. > > > > Just curious - where do you log it, if you're running off a boot cd > > and > > just clobbered the drives? Onto a new partition? > > Who the hell knows? :P The Japanese government wrote the rules and > if they're anything like the Aussie parliament, they have narry a > clue between all of them about the technicalities this "logging" > requirement creates. I'm not that fussy - for all I care, they can > break out the digital camera and photograph the screen! > > Seriously though, if it's booting from floppy, write to floppy. If > it's booting from CD, send via e-mail, or write to a floppy, write to > a network share? None of which sound particularly simple to > implement given that every network is different and many (most) PC's > these days don't come with floppy drives anymore.
A knoppix type solution + scrubber lets you have a complete PC with network etc AND scrubbed disks Also you could make scrub a menu entry ... James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
