Anonymous wrote:
Dale Thorn sez:
Jamie Lawrence wrote:
[snip]
But nobody answered my question: Is there a shortcut way to do the wipe, say, thirty times? Ordinarily, I'd run the program thirty times, which would consist of a data write followed by a flush, which would take 30x amount of time.
Buffered writes won't work for obvious reasons. You must make raw writes to the sectors you seek to scramble after you gather information about what sectors you want to write.
That much I've known for 15 years or so....
The innovation you are looking for is called "the loop". You can implement "the loop" many ways including taping the end of your program to the beginning. Be careful not to accidentally twist the paper as this will cause your writes to become reads. If you are using punch cards you are SOL. sheesh. Remind me not to use any of Dale's "utilities".
You would not likely ever have the opportunity to use such utilities, since you obviously lack certain basic ingredients of intelligence. I don't do "user-friendly" GUI programs, but I suppose this list is full of MAC users for reasons known only to themselves (I don't want to know).