kaled - 10:47 am on May 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

It seems to me that there's a market for a black box into which you can plug a drive, press a button and have it wiped. Surely, the hard disk manufactures could design and sell such a beast for about $500. (It would need ATA,SATA and possibly SCSI interfaces and ideally, the ability to wipe two or three drives simultaneously).

Of course, if bios writers provided this facility, there would be no problem. They used to provide a "low-level" format function but you don't see that any more.

Kaled.