R: PATA hard disks, anyone?

[ethan at 757.org]

> Certainly, but it's fruitless to use logic in cases such as these.
> Chances are that someone once read the paper from the 1990s that said it
> was possible to recover overwritten data from a drive using, IIRC, an
> STM--at a rate of what was it? 1 kbit per hour?

AFAIK there has been a bounty out to recover data with a single wipe that 
hasn't been collected. I thought it was all theory and never done in 
practice?


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: Ethan O'Toole