[ale] Edubuntu Local Apps and Hard Drives : was Need Help sending PCs to Haiti

[Watson, Keith]

The free version of dban hasn't been under development for some time so it has issues talking to some drive controllers. I use Parted Magic (live CD) that has Nwipe which uses the same tool for wiping hard drives as dban.

http://partedmagic.com/


keith


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Kinney
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 13:13
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Edubuntu Local Apps and Hard Drives : was Need Help
> sending PCs to Haiti
> 
> dban is not seeing the bazillion year old IDE chipset. still trying.
> 
> ARGH!!!!
> 
> The degauser will kill the drives.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Sergio Chaves <sergio.chaves at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I do :-)
> >
> > Jim, were you able to dban those drives you originally mentioned?
> > Not sure if I missed an email from you earlier...
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Ted W <ted at techmachine.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 14, 2012, at 10:44 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Jim,
> >> >> I've got at least one IDE PCI card if you want it. I have no use for
> it
> >> >> (assuming I can find it).
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > I do as well, full-sized ISA!  Perhaps there's a telecom customer
> >> > willing to
> >> > spend $2000 for this card?
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> >> Just following up.
> >>
> >> Jim,
> >> I got around to (finally) unpacking the last of the boxes from my move
> >> ::cough:5monthsago:cough:: and I found the card I was talking about.
> Let me
> >> know if you still want it.
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> >> Ted W. < Ted at Techmachine.net >
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> >>
> >>
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