On Wed, 2015-06-24 at 11:46 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> I will try to 'entertain' and 'educate' myself by surgically
> dismantling the beast. In fact I would also like to give the ROMs to a
> friend (HW and FW engineer) who has equipment to read the ROMs, and
> disassemble the contents.
Actually, that
On 06/24/2015 12:46 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> I have never dismantled one before !
I have a 12 lb sledge hammer. It's very gratifying to "dismantle" a
drive using one.
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> If you're wiping mostly for privacy and there are few dead sectors,
> you're probably fine. If you have very sensitive data and/or many bad
> sectors, you need to take extra measures to destroy the data.
ATA Enhanced Security Erase funct
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 4:04 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> So, then, the drive is DeD dead
Write errors are essentially fatal because it means there are no more
reserve sectors available. Normally a write error is never reported by
the device to the kernel because the drive remaps the LBA to a reserv
On 06/24/2015 11:51 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:46:38AM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
On 06/23/2015 11:46 PM, Tim wrote:
jd1008:
I will be resorting to a powerfull de-gausser :)
Joe Zeff:
Depending on your tastes, using it for target practice will do the job.
What about, hard
On 06/24/2015 11:51 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:46:38AM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
On 06/23/2015 11:46 PM, Tim wrote:
jd1008:
I will be resorting to a powerfull de-gausser :)
Joe Zeff:
Depending on your tastes, using it for target practice will do the job.
What about, hard
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:46:38AM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
>
>
> On 06/23/2015 11:46 PM, Tim wrote:
> >jd1008:
> >>>I will be resorting to a powerfull de-gausser :)
> >Joe Zeff:
> >>Depending on your tastes, using it for target practice will do the job.
> >What about, hard drives roasting on an open
On 06/24/2015 04:14 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On 06/23/2015 10:48 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
I will be resorting to a powerfull de-gausser :)
Depending on your tastes, using it for target practice will do the job.
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On 06/23/2015 11:46 PM, Tim wrote:
jd1008:
I will be resorting to a powerfull de-gausser :)
Joe Zeff:
Depending on your tastes, using it for target practice will do the job.
What about, hard drives roasting on an open fire? (Yes, I did sing it
in my head to /that/ song.)
A strong degausse
On 06/23/2015 08:48 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/23/2015 07:33 PM, jd1008 wrote:
I will be resorting to a powerfull de-gausser :)
Depending on your tastes, using it for target practice will do the job.
Not a bad idea :)
I should learn archery :)
I will very likely loose many arrows before I hi
Tim:
>> I've pulled drives apart before, but that's a lot effort (tiny odd
>> screws, sometimes seriously jammed into place), then bent the disc
>> platters to buggery.
>>
>> While seriously annoying and time-consuming to do, it was also quite
>> satisfying to mangle the bugger to death.
Fred Smi
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 03:16:06PM +0930, Tim wrote:
> jd1008:
> >> I will be resorting to a powerfull de-gausser :)
>
> Joe Zeff:
> > Depending on your tastes, using it for target practice will do the job.
>
> What about, hard drives roasting on an open fire? (Yes, I did sing it
> in my head to
On 06/23/2015 10:48 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>
>> I will be resorting to a powerfull de-gausser :)
>
> Depending on your tastes, using it for target practice will do the job.
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jd1008:
>> I will be resorting to a powerfull de-gausser :)
Joe Zeff:
> Depending on your tastes, using it for target practice will do the job.
What about, hard drives roasting on an open fire? (Yes, I did sing it
in my head to /that/ song.)
A strong degausser is a bit of an esoteric thing, and
On 06/23/2015 07:33 PM, jd1008 wrote:
I will be resorting to a powerfull de-gausser :)
Depending on your tastes, using it for target practice will do the job.
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On 06/23/2015 08:16 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
On 06/23/2015 03:04 PM, jd1008 wrote:
during secure erase, I am seeing these continuous rolling errors
in /var/log/messages
Jun 23 16:00:37 localhost kernel: ata6.00: error: { ABRT }
Jun 23 16:00:37 localhost kernel: ata6.00: configured for U
On 06/23/2015 03:04 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> during secure erase, I am seeing these continuous rolling errors
> in /var/log/messages
>
> Jun 23 16:00:37 localhost kernel: ata6.00: error: { ABRT }
> Jun 23 16:00:37 localhost kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100
> Jun 23 16:00:37 localhost kernel: a
during secure erase, I am seeing these continuous rolling errors
in /var/log/messages
Jun 23 16:00:37 localhost kernel: ata6.00: error: { ABRT }
Jun 23 16:00:37 localhost kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100
Jun 23 16:00:37 localhost kernel: ata6: EH complete
Jun 23 16:00:37 localhost kerne
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