On 30/08/2006, at 1:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 ...
Thanks James. I have a few specialised Knoppix CD's floating around
my office for certain things on our network, but I need something
that's "Idiot-resistant" for very high values of "idiot" :) That
means I need to make the process as simple as possible -
unfortunately Knoppix would probably scare the hell out of the crew
in Japan.
Cheers,
James
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