<div dir="ltr">Maybe I should clarify.. I wasn't doing zip drives (I honestly didn't think they still existed!) I was wiping standard HDDs.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 14:50, Charles M <<a href="mailto:chaslinux@gmail.com">chaslinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">It's an external USB 2.0 250MB capacity drive. We have 1 or 2 of the 250MB disks, but for this run I'm just doing 100MB disks.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm surprised you had success with nwipe for the zip drive Jeff as the disk I had actually appeared to only have the original zip tools on it... But as an org I figured we needed to go 1 step further and ensure there was nothing. Might give it a go again if I can dig up an internal drive... I have lots of boxes to sort, I'm sure we probably have something... (actually came across a 230MB SCSI optical storage device).. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 1:06 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc, <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
To add to this: is this an internal or external Zip drive? <br>
(We did have an internal one kicking around that I set aside for these<br>
kinds of situations.)<br>
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- Paul<br>
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:31:38PM -0400, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br>
> A few months back I posted a similar email to the group in which I<br>
> mentioned that I was using nwipe, with is a linux fork of dban. I still<br>
> consider nwipe to be a good choice here, but if you're getting really slow<br>
> speeds then check your connections. If you're mounting the drive inside a<br>
> PC then fine, but it you're using a toaster oven as an external dock then<br>
> try to use USB3 connections. It makes a difference.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 12:23, Charles M <<a href="mailto:chaslinux@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">chaslinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Normally I'd use DBAN to wipe hard drives and partedmagic to securely<br>
> > wipe SSDs. I had a request recently for some zip disks and wondered if<br>
> > anyone has a good method for wiping these that would meet a DOD-short<br>
> > (3 pass standard). I tried nwipe and it started out well, but part way<br>
> > through ended up with a million or so hours to wipe a 100MB disk. (I<br>
> > ended up using gparted and the drive seemed to be okay, but not<br>
> > securely wiped).<br>
> ><br>
> > There's a dd tutorial here that looks pretty good (for USB keys):<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="https://uwnthesis.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/kali-how-to-use-dd-to-wipe-your-usb-pen-the-visual-guide/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://uwnthesis.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/kali-how-to-use-dd-to-wipe-your-usb-pen-the-visual-guide/</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Just wondering if someone has used any other tools to wipe zip drives?<br>
> ><br>
> > Cheers,<br>
> ><br>
> > Charles<br>
> ><br>
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