[Gllug] Thoughts on secondhand server guide price

[Benjamin Donnachie]

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
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