Hello Wayne ! 

 WC> I was thinking Roy's advice might have some value in the 
 WC> command line syntax he provided but on rethinking it 
 WC> if fdisk /dev/hde doesn't see the drive his zeroing syntax
 WC> won't see it either :-(

        I was going to suggest a PRG that I use at times, called
  BAKTRAK, it also zeroes in all tracks/sectors. But if the HD is not
  even seen on your system, you can not address it with any CLI.


 I would not be without an OLMR.
 
    
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