[CentOS] Wiping USB drives

[John R Pierce]

centos at 911networks.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a dozen of drives, ranging from 10Gb to 200Gb. I want to
> wipe them clean before donating them. I have a IDE/SATA to USB
> converter that works. I can see the drives properly.
>
> DBAN does not currently support external USB drive. Any other
> alternatives?
>
>   

dban is actually a linux utility, I believe, normally run under a 
stripped uClinux/busybox environment.  Id imagine you could put it on a 
'liveCD' that -does- support USB disk