Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/23/05, Sebastian Pahlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 > > Do I make something wrong because the transfer rate is only 60932 > bytes/sec??? These are 60 kbytes/sec, slower than my internet connection

RE: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
d.org >Subject: Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc > > >Sebastian Pahlke wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 > >You may want to consider using /dev/random instea

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 04:29 CEST schrieb Mike Jeays: > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:57, Danny MacMillan wrote: > > Sebastian Pahlke wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: > > > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 > > > > You may want to consider using /d

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:57, Danny MacMillan wrote: > Sebastian Pahlke wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 > > You may want to consider using /dev/random instead of, or in combination > with, /dev/zero. Zeroing out a d

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Danny MacMillan
Sebastian Pahlke wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 You may want to consider using /dev/random instead of, or in combination with, /dev/zero. Zeroing out a disk isn't a significant barrier to forensic analysis. ___

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 22. August 2005 22:13 CEST schrieb Sebastian Pahlke: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 > > Do I make something wrong because the transfer rate is only 60932 > bytes/sec??? These are 60 kbytes/sec, slower than my internet > con

Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew P.
On 8/23/05, Sebastian Pahlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 > > Do I make something wrong because the transfer rate is only 60932 > bytes/sec??? These are 60 kbytes/sec, slower than my internet connection

dd is so slow on my SCSI disc

2005-08-22 Thread Sebastian Pahlke
Hi all, I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 Do I make something wrong because the transfer rate is only 60932 bytes/sec??? These are 60 kbytes/sec, slower than my internet connection!!! :( I tried to increase the block size, with bs=32768 I get 3416071