Properly wiping a hard drive ?
JD
jd1008 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 17:40:03 UTC 2010
On 10/09/2010 01:29 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 02:27 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>
>> > From man hdparm:
>>
>> --security-erase PWD
>> Erase (locked) drive, using password PWD (DANGEROUS).
>> Password is given as an ASCII string and is padded
>> with NULs to reach 32 bytes. Use the special password
>> NULL to represent an empty password. The applicable
>> drive password is selected with the --user-master switch.
>> No other flags are permitted on the command line
>> with this one. THIS FEATURE IS EXPERIMENTAL AND NOT WELL
>> TESTED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
>>
>>
>> In actual use:
>>
>> # hdparm --security-erase NULL /dev/sdd
>> security_password=""
>>
>> /dev/sdd:
>> Issuing SECURITY_ERASE command, password="", user=master
>> ERASE_PREPARE: Invalid exchange
>>
>> Why ????
> I have this drive connected via a USB adapter. Would that cause this
> problem ?
>
>
Do you have a system where you can connect the drive
directly to a sata port, or if IDE, to an IDE port, and retry?
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