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Re: Erasing a hard disk easily
From: Darren Reed <avalon () cairo anu edu au>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:40:57 +1000 (Australia/NSW)
In some mail from Gary E. Miller, sie said:
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Darren Reed wrote:Too bad the pc Unixes don't have a format command like Sun has had for Solaris/SunOS....tells the hard drive to 'format' and then tests with a number of test patterns.You can not really force a low level format of an IDE or SCSI drive. The drive that appears to the OS is not the real drive, but a virtual drive managed by the disk electronics. The most you can do is ask the drive to format itself. Some do a good job and some do not. The ones that return in seconds did not and the ones that takes hours are doing better.
Have you ever actually used format on Solaris to format a SCSI disk ? It's somewhat similar, I believe, to "scsictl /dev/sd0a format" on NetBSD. I ask because your comments here make it seem like you have not...and the lack of that experience shows in the rest of your comments, too... Darren _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily, (continued)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Doug White (Jul 13)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Denis McMahon (Jul 13)
- Re: Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Maarten (Jul 13)
- RE: Erasing a hard disk easily Jos Osborne (Jul 13)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Aditya, ALD [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ] (Jul 13)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Maarten (Jul 14)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Darren Reed (Jul 14)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily James Sneeringer (Jul 14)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Larry Apolonio (Jul 14)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Gary E. Miller (Jul 14)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Darren Reed (Jul 15)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Gary E. Miller (Jul 15)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Darren Reed (Jul 16)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Kurt Seifried (Jul 16)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Gary E. Miller (Jul 16)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Aditya, ALD [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ] (Jul 13)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Dave Horsfall (Jul 15)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily Vincent Archer (Jul 15)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily José María Mateos (Jul 15)
- Re: Erasing a hard disk easily wszumera (Jul 15)