-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/19/2010 02:04 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 17:17 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >>> if I plug the old (not-very-healthy!) disk in to a sata-to-usb >>> external adapter, and then hotplug the usb cable into the new machine >>> on a usb port, I am guessing that I will not be able to pass hdparm >>> commands to the old disk connected in this way >> >> It depends on the chips in the adapters (see hdparm docs). Mine don't >> support it, and the only one of them that I can warn you about is the >> Seagate desktop expansion drive, the others have no branding. > > OK thanks - if anyone knows of a specific adapter that *will* work I > would like to know - of course having the drive in its internal bay is > likely not to work either since many (most?) bioses will freeze the > drive from the ata command viewpoint such that it can't be unlocked to > pass the secure erase command anyway! So having an external adapter is > probably the only way I can easily do it but I do need to know that > there is an external adapter that will work. What I was unsure of is > whether there is any that would work since I had been told that usb > can't do it at all! > > (I did look at the hdparm man command but did not see the answer to > the latter question) > > Mike > Well, you could always just perform a mostly secure wipe by just doing dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdc several times, so that the bits are overwritten by random data. - -- Stephen Gallagher RHCE 804006346421761 Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxtdxkACgkQeiVVYja6o6P3NQCfUtKLRRV9Q79VCaZqHpO3roo5 /tMAoJWWoVOT8pa6UD/zlgrHqbeWQ9lf =d8cP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
