Going to excess old laptops and I have to attest that all data is gone.
Thus KillDisk and I are getting acquainted again. Some drives will only
take about 45 minutes.... others of the same size will take 3 hours.
Don't understand why since drive geometry is identical.

Not going to have any data on those puppies when they get farmed out to
some elementary school. Wish I could install Suse on them before they go
out.


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Sewermonger wrote:
> Going to excess old laptops and I have to attest that all data is gone.
> Thus KillDisk and I are getting acquainted again. Some drives will only
> take about 45 minutes.... others of the same size will take 3 hours.
> Don't understand why since drive geometry is identical.
> 
> Not going to have any data on those puppies when they get farmed out to
> some elementary school. Wish I could install Suse on them before they go
> out.
> 
> 

Why can't you?  Just clone the drives after wipe.  Then not only are 
they erased but they've had new data written on them :)

Install open suse if it's a license issue

I'm checking into that. %^)
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"Sewermonger" <Sewermonger@gmail.com> wrote in news:qesSj.9281$Dh4.4879
@kovat.provo.novell.com:

> I'm checking into that. %^)
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OR puppy linux if they are old beasts.

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Ciao, Dave

Sewermonger <Sewermonger@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in 
news:Sewermonger.38r1en@no-mx.forums.novell.com:

> Don't understand why since drive geometry is identical.

DMA / 32 bit is off in BIOS?
One is an old Celeron and the other gruntier?
Have you tried DBAN vs GDisk or whatever the ghost disk killer is called?
HTH. 8)

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Ciao, Dave