Tim: >> There have been cases of people getting refurbished drives which did >> have the previous owners data on them. Ed Greshko: > Do you have first hand knowledge of this or is this something you've > just heard about? I read about it on the internet, so it must be true... ;-) But seriously, I should have said there's been "reports" of such a thing "allegedly" happening, just to cover myself. Of course we'll never know if it's true, but I can see how it can happen by accident. All it needs is for someone dealing with a batch of drives, to accidentally skip a step in handling incoming and outgoing, and one pending drive erroneously becomes a done one. > Are *all* manufacturer's strict about how they manage it? Do some people return a drive through their dealer, rather than straight back to the manufacturer, and might a dealer not bother to properly handle it? -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.17.2-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 18:28:00 UTC 2014 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
