"Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > At a bare minimum you should use the drive's built-in secure erase > feature (either using hdparm's (experimental) support or using the > vendor's proprietary tools). Does the hdparm secure erase work on most motherboards? It seems that most of newer boards have a bios that disables the secure erase at bios boot time. Only my oldest mobo allows me to use the security erase. I find that I have to move my drives to that motherboard before I can erase them, which is a royal pain in the neck. (All the systems are running the exact same F13 64-bit fully up to date OS.) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
