I'd just do something like:

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdb

do that 10 times or so, and it'll be clean

Eric Richardson spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> Hi,
> 
> I took an old drive from a Mac(not working) and would like to make sure 
> the files are not readable. I have the drive in a x86 box running Debian 
> Linux box with a  2.4.8 kernel but the drive is HFS+(MacOS X)which is 
> not supported until 2.6 or by patching and compiling 2.4. I don't really 
> want to do that because I just got it all working for a firewall box.
> 
> Could I just format the drive and then use wipe on the device such as 
> /dev/hdb1 and will that work or do the files need to be readable?
> 
> Reading the man page for wipe on Debian stable (version 0.15) leads me 
> to think it is better to wipe a drive where the files are readable.
> 
> Any recommendations are welcome including good options to use with wipe 
> and the best method to format the drive or other approaches etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
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