Unfortunately it's not always easy to take out a hard drive on a
Macintosh computer. In fact to take out the hard drive of a clamshell
I-Book it may take 1-2 hours.

I'd suggest connecting a firewire cable to the Macintosh, then hold
down the "T" Key after pressing the power button. This maneuver will
boot the Macintosh into "Firewire Target Disk" mode. You can then
connect another Macintosh to it, and it will mount the "Target Mode"'s
macintosh hard drive as a volume on the desktop. You can then run:
while [ 1]; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk2
size=1gigbiggerthanthedrive; done

Fun stuff if the machines run OS X.

On Mar 9, 2005, at 7:14 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:

> You can just remove the drives and wipe them on a windows box, this is
> probably the safest because any machine you don't take apart to get at
> the drives shouldn't be donated (thus less chance for shipping one
> without wiping it).
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