[kwlug-disc] Securely wiping zip disks?

[Charles M]

It's an external USB 2.0 250MB capacity drive. We have 1 or 2 of the 250MB
disks, but for this run I'm just doing 100MB disks.

I'm surprised you had success with nwipe for the zip drive Jeff as the disk
I had actually appeared to only have the original zip tools on it... But as
an org I figured we needed to go 1 step further and ensure there was
nothing. Might give it a go again if I can dig up an internal drive... I
have lots of boxes to sort, I'm sure we probably have something...
(actually came across a 230MB SCSI optical storage device)..

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 1:06 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc, <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

>
> To add to this: is this an internal or external Zip drive?
> (We did have an internal one kicking around that I set aside for these
> kinds of situations.)
>
> - Paul
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:31:38PM -0400, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> > A few months back I posted a similar email to the group in which I
> > mentioned that I was using nwipe, with is a linux fork of dban.  I still
> > consider nwipe to be a good choice here, but if you're getting really
> slow
> > speeds then check your connections.  If you're mounting the drive inside
> a
> > PC then fine, but it you're using a toaster oven as an external dock then
> > try to use USB3 connections.  It makes a difference.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 12:23, Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Normally I'd use DBAN to wipe hard drives and partedmagic to securely
> > > wipe SSDs. I had a request recently for some zip disks and wondered if
> > > anyone has a good method for wiping these that would meet a DOD-short
> > > (3 pass standard). I tried nwipe and it started out well, but part way
> > > through ended up with a million or so hours to wipe a 100MB disk. (I
> > > ended up using gparted and the drive seemed to be okay, but not
> > > securely wiped).
> > >
> > > There's a dd tutorial here that looks pretty good (for USB keys):
> > >
> > >
> https://uwnthesis.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/kali-how-to-use-dd-to-wipe-your-usb-pen-the-visual-guide/
> > >
> > > Just wondering if someone has used any other tools to wipe zip drives?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Charles
> > >
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