Re: Erasing hard drives - Erase-O-Matic?

["John Abreau-2" <user=184@nabble.blu.org>]

 No, the BIOS isn't seeing it; at least, the 3ware RAID card 
reports that nothing is plugged into the slot it's plugged 
into, regardless of which slot I plug it into. The 3ware card 
does detect a good drive when I plug one into the same slots. 


Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:13 AM, John Abreau <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>   
>> I have a Seagate 750gb hard drive that's died, and that I'm preparing 
>> to return for warranty replacement. 
>> 
>> I tried to use DBAN to erase the drive, but it's unable to detect the 
>> drive at all, never mind wipe its data. I did a google search for 
>> hard drive degaussers, and found a lot of options that would cost 
>> between $2,000 and $40,000. 
>>     
> 
> But your BIOS detects it correctly?  I would use a low-level format 
> booter or something, then try to just load a Linux LiveCD and 
> overwrite with /dev/zero.  Using more than one pass or /dev/random 
> does not actually have an effect on newer hard drives.  Despite 
> popular myth, it is not proven possible to recover data (without 
> perhaps NSA-type tools and funding) even after one overwrite pass of 
> zeros... 
>