[Gllug] Wanted - small (20, 30,

[Dan]

The one thing I don't like about DBAN is it fails when there are bad
sectors.  If I have a disk with bad sectors DD is the way to go.

Dan

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:

> On 16 Nov 2009, at 11:49, Chris Bell wrote:
> [...]
> > Better than a test that does a write + read to the whole disc using a
> > sequence of four different patterns?
>
> Yes. That's the *point* of DBAN: to secure-erase disks using various
> patterns. OTTOMH I'm unsure if it reads the data back, but it's
> probably one of the many options.
>
> I used DBAN to batch-erase my stack of old disks ready for giving
> away, and to weed out the unfit. Worked a treat.
>
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