Possibility of hdparm on Mac OS X

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Fri Aug 27 00:31:24 PDT 2010


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")

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 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org



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