[CentOS] Looking for a good disk exerciser

[chrism at imntv.com]

Dale Sykora wrote:
>> Now I'm wondering what's the best way to destroy all the data on the 
>> drive so I can return it without my stuff, unreliable or not, on it. 
>>     
>
> you can use shred and even loop it a few times
>
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/shred.1.html
>
>   

Also, doesn't the seagate utility have a low level format function?  I 
haven't used one of those utility disks in ages, but that used to be 
standard fare.

Cheers,