RE: Macintosh wiping

Only one thing to watch for.. If for any reason it's not an Apple 
'blessed' drive (OEM replacement, for instance), the MacOS (not OSX) 
installer won't partition/reformat the drive after you've blanked it, and 
you'll have to dig up a running MacOS instance to format it again to HFS.

I ran into that with an old Centris 650 and a SCSI drive I already had. I 
ran NetBSD on it, but you had to have MacOS (I think it was 7.5) installed 
first....which it wouldn't do until I partitioned and formatted the drive 
with a PowerBook my then-boss owned.


> 1) A hard drive is a hard drive (given desktop hardware), so yank the
> drive(s), plug them into whatever machines you're using to wipe now, and
> wipe 'em that way.


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