Yes, if you can just use standard LInux tools, I'd suggest simply running the command: badblocks -w Thomas Stivers writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:13:01 AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > > I think we know what you want. The question isn't what you want, but how > > this technology you're trying to use actually works. Short of going and > > doing the investigation for you, I don't know as I (or anyone else), > > could answer you. It should be quite evident that none of us here use > > this thing, so we can't just tell you off the top of our heads. > > I looked at the site a little without much enlightenment as to what is > under the hood of this package, but I didn't try all that hard. > Regardless of how it works behind the scenes though you are going to > have to modify the kernel of the boot disk and then rebuild the disk to > get speakup working. If the issue is standardization on this particular > system for wiping hard drives will the people who say you *must* use > dban permit you to use a modified version of it. If they will let you > modify the source and recompile then they might as well allow you to use > other tools to do the same job, so I think your going to need to check > with the powers that be to see if any modification would be a violation > or exactly what is going on. > > - -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDAe1G5JK61UXLur0RA1XsAJwKVL6legOWfY36Yjj6+GB69GbfzQCfQkcS > AKf6I32lim7xE6LVVGgol7s= > =HynW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
