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bdl · 08-16-2002, 05:03 PM

Best way I've found to wipe a drive, data, partition table and all is to just use the 'dd' command under linux (or possibly BSD, I can't confirm atm). You just issue the command

[SHELL]
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=38172
[/SHELL]

Where the device is your drive device and the count value is the size of your hdd.
Some SCSI controllers also have this function built in, when you boot up and enter the SCSI utility screen you'll see it.

08-16-2002, 05:03 PM	#7 (permalink)
bdl Senior Contributor Join Date: May 2002 Location: vta.ca.usa Posts: 555	Best way I've found to wipe a drive, data, partition table and all is to just use the 'dd' command under linux (or possibly BSD, I can't confirm atm). You just issue the command [SHELL] $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1M count=38172 [/SHELL] Where the device is your drive device and the count value is the size of your hdd. Some SCSI controllers also have this function built in, when you boot up and enter the SCSI utility screen you'll see it.