Re: wipe utilities

From: Dave Dittrich (dittrichat_private)
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 18:12:20 PDT

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    >  The wipe utility must be able to make numerous (up to seven)
    >  uninterrupted passes and support a wide array of file systems (fat,
    >  ntfs, etc).
    
    Not to belabor the thread, but a co-worker of mine put together a
    really sweet (and free!) bootable floppy wiper for Intel PCs (any OS,
    since it just recognizes partitions).  Its at:
    
    	http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/
    
    > Also, the software must support the ability to assign a particular
    > hex character as the wipe character.
    
    I think it does that.
    
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