Possibility of hdparm on Mac OS X

[Scott Haneda]

On Aug 27, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

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> On Aug 26, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
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>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/support
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>> The one command I am after is ATA Secure Erase, the rest would be nice, but that is the main one.
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> I think this would be a time consuming with no guarantee of success.
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> If you have physical access use a liveboot cd with the tool you need installed.
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> http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=841182

Thanks Brad, 

Yeah, my goal was to avoid that method.  I wanted to have a full CLI Suite here, in Mac Ports for the more advanced users, and then yank out the ATA Secure Erase command into a very simple GUI app that did one thing, but hopefully did it well,

I had a feeling it would be a complex one to do given the nature of this software, and my lack of understanding in this language.  Not to mention to shove it into a GUI would be one of just a handful of experiences I would have had in obj-c or using Apple's tools for that matter.

Thanks for the comments everyone.
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