Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

[mike cloaked]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:

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>  Check the documentation for:
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>        hdparm --secure-erase
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>    and/or  --security-erase-enhanced
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I have used these commands for a number of drives - it is the fastest
way to really erase all data on a drive, and effectively end up with
the equivalent of a factory fresh HD. The only catch is that depending
on your bios/hardware you may need to hotplug the drive before you get
it into an "unfrozen" state with regard to using those secure erase
commands. However as Gene says you need to check the documentation -
googling gets the information you need fairly quickly.

-- 
mike c