[Gllug] Thoughts on secondhand server guide price

[Philip Hands]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:32:33AM +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
> 2009/6/17 John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com>
> 
> > I had occasion recently to securely delete a hard drive formatted with
> > Linux filesystems, and
> > did a little bit of research on this.
> >
> 
> For IDE/SATA drives I prefer:
> 
> hdparm --user-master u --security-set-pass PASSWORD /dev/sdX
> hdparm --user-master u --security-erase-enhanced PASSWORD /dev/sdX
> hdparm --user-master u --security-disable PASSWORD /dev/sdX
> 
> Ben

That's very trusting of you :-)

Intrigued by the idea of a hardware manufacturer getting security right
when there's little chance of the feature ever being used, I spent a
few seconds on goole and found:

  http://www.rockbox.org/lock.html

oh well.

Cheers, Phil.
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