Darren New wrote:
> Unless the drive had a command 
> built in that wiped the entire track in one rotation or something, 
> rather than actually having to transfer the data from memory to the 
> drive for the whole thing.
> 

Actually, that would be a pretty cool feature for a hard drive: an 
external button that, when pressed, caused the drive to overwrite itself 
with random data.

(Or maybe instead of a button, a keyhole, so it would be harder to do 
accidentally).

...Chambers

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