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From: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: SCSI and erasing the whole disk
Keywords: SCSI
Message-ID: <1893@mountn.dec.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 18:22:06 GMT
References: <949@beguine.UUCP>
Reply-To: minow@bolt.enet.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <949@beguine.UUCP> Eliot.Henry@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account)
asks about using SCSI commands to erase a disk.

The Scsi Manager is documented in Inside Mac (mostly in vol. 4) -- the
description is quite straight-forward and easy to implement.  You also
need the SCSI function descriptions for your system.

There are commercial products such as Ft Knox that do what you want and
will probably be easier and cheaper (in the long run) than doing it yourself.

Martin Minow
minow@bolt.enet.dec.com