2009/6/17 sean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:S.Tohill@westminster.ac.uk">S.Tohill@westminster.ac.uk</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
it is well worth a read if you wish to know more about the area and also<br>
to decide if your data is at risk when you sell your wiped disks.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Useful links regarding the on-board erase command - which, unlike DBAN etc, also kills HPA and DCO areas:<br><br>  <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=148">http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=148</a><br>
  <a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/HDDEraseReadMe.txt">http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/HDDEraseReadMe.txt</a><br>  <a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml">http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml</a><br>
  <a href="http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/DataSanitizationTutorial.pdf">http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/DataSanitizationTutorial.pdf</a><br><br>Enough to get started... :)<br><br>Ben<br>