> I was talking to Kristin this morning about doing that. I was > concerned that there is not anybody certifying that each individual > disk drive model / firmware release is properly implementing the > Security Erase function. > > Are you aware of testing body, etc. that publishes a white-list of > drives that are known to have a proper implementation of Security > Erase? Lacking something like that and realizing how rarely it is > used, I'm not sure it should be trusted. That would be a question to ask some of the security bodies - or possible T13 (the standards people). Given there are only about 4 major drive vendors left it sohuldn't take long to ask them however. > Performing both a Security Erase and calling shred on the drive might > be the ultimate one-two punch. Can't do any harm - and in theory drives can reject (not ignore!) security erase. Some mini ones seem to. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
