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Author:  flöle [ Mon Jul 26, 2010 6:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

Erasing a DVD with 3GB+ of data should not finish within 2 minutes. A "full" erase should overwrite the whole content of the disc from start to finish, which should take rather 10 minutes. I guess StarBurn doesn't erase enough.

This is a problem a user reported to me (though I got such reports repeatedly), so I hope that the log file will suffice.

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Author:  anton (staff) [ Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

This is partially written DVD+RW. So we erase used region and start background formatting. That's all...

Author:  flöle [ Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

Partially...but isn't that "partially" actually 3GB or more?

Author:  anton (staff) [ Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:19 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

I've re-checked the log and it's completely pre-formatted media. OK, let us have a closer look at this issue.

Author:  flöle [ Sat Jul 31, 2010 8:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

Thanks! :)

Author:  anton (staff) [ Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

Nothing for yet...

Author:  flöle [ Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

Any news a month later?

Author:  anton (staff) [ Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

We've checked and we do indeed overwrite only first 32KB of the disc ALWAYS (does not matter do we have FULL or FAST erase asked). It's not data loss or crash so we'll fix this with the official release.

Author:  flöle [ Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

If confidential data is exposed after it has been supposedly deleted it's just as critical as loss of data in my opinion.

Author:  anton (staff) [ Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

It's still not data loss or crash so we'll fix this one in the new development branch.

flöle wrote:
If confidential data is exposed after it has been supposedly deleted it's just as critical as loss of data in my opinion.

Author:  flöle [ Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

I've recently read something about V13 being released "really soon" - so has this issue been addressed yet?

Author:  flöle [ Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

Ah, I just noticed that you actually released V13 silently without telling me. So is this issue fixed in V13? How can I upgrade to V13?

Author:  anton (staff) [ Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

It's not SDK. It's core StarBurn. StarBurn SDK V13 should follow soon.

Author:  flöle [ Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

I know that you are also busy with other stuff, but since the StarBurn.dll I got now has version "13" and I keep getting asked about this issue quite often, do you see a chance to make a quick fix here? Doesn't seem like a big deal to me, correct me if I'm wrong ;)

Author:  dima (staff) [ Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:43 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bug: Secure/full erase is too fast

Hello,

Does the latest build still not erase DVD+RW disc properly?

Regards,

Dmitry

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