[geeks] bulk-erasing a HD

[Geoff Reed]

keep that bulk eraser AWAY form the HDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  You need to hook it up in something and DD it or Low-level it.  you are 
correct that you would trash the servo tracks with a bulk eraser!

At 08:51 PM 5/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I've got a SCA HD here, out of a SGI machine, that I need to erase
>or at least render unreadable before sending off to someone.  Unfortunately,
>I dont have the right bracket, nor the tools to re-use one of my existing
>brackets, to mount this in my U60 and dd it to death.
>
>We *do* have a bulk eraser at work that's used on backup tapes - would
>this work, or would it also fuck up the servo tracks on the disk and
>make it completely unusable?  If it has to be re-low-level-formatted thats
>okay; as long as the guy can use it when it gets to him...
>
>Bill
>
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>Bill Bradford
>mrbill at mrbill.net
>Austin, TX
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