Hello,

I want to wipe my harddisk completely on a save method. Because the DBAN tool (http://dban.sourceforge.net/)
does not wipe the hpa and dco, I want to use hdparm. This method supports 'Secure Erase' witch is now build in
modern disks.

The problem that I've got is the frozen status of the disk. Does anybody now how to avoid this without doing any physical actions ?

Or does anybody know an (open source and free) solution to wipe the hpa and dco on a secure way ?

Thanks a lot,

LittleTwinkel