Ben Weatherall wrote:
>It depends on what you want to do with the drive afterwards and how paranoid you are. If you do NOT want to use the drive again, swirl a Really Big Magnet around both the top and bottom of the drive and then hit it repeatedly with a sledgehammer and/or axe until it is in many pieces, then dispose of properly.
>
It is a good drive, better than the first drive in the x86 machine.
Originally, I wanted to fix the imac 266 and give it away but I tried to
replace the motherboard but it turns out that didn't fix it as
apparently the Power analog video board is bad. I spent $25 on the board
but don't want to spend another $10 plus S&H for another part.(ebay)
>
>If you want to use the drive again, the best approach is to be able to read the drive first so that the geometry matches prior to the wipe. This way you are writing patterns over data and not Inter-record gaps (IRGs) or between tracks (ITGs). You might be able to get away with using a magnet here too, but it is risky since it will most likely magnetize parts of the drive :-(
>
>
This makes sense so perhaps I should look at the 2.6 kernel that
supports the AFS+ before wipe(ing) the drive. Or just use the drive as
I'm not too paranoid. Thanks.
>Hope this helps,
>-Ben
>
>-----Original Message from Eric Richardson-----
>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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