Wiping Out Data

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-03-17, Jim Dever wrote:

> Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> I used this a few months ago and noticed that DBAN takes a very long
>> time to run.  So I'm not sure about "an emergency" --- unless you use
>> the quick mode right away and the more secure mode while $CONSPIRATORS
>> are trying to break the door down.
>
> Try version 1.0.6 instead of 1.0.7.  The latest version has been
> reported to be very slow with certain hardware.

I used 1.0.7.  Sorry that my previous post was easy to misinterpret
--- I was certainly not complaining about the time DBAN takes to wipe
a drive well; I just meant to warn the OP that the job it does is
inherently a time-consuming one.