In article <6EB398EB-F4ED-4A75-A5CC-F4A3447584EF at newgeo.com>, Scott Haneda <talklists at newgeo.com> wrote: > The one command I am after is ATA Secure Erase, the rest would be nice, but > that is the main one. Doesn't Apple's /usr/sbin/diskutil provide this already, i.e. its secureErase function? (see "man 8 diskutil") -- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org