need to wipe a disk

From: Todd <Todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:09:15 -0800

Hi All,

I have a disk with personal information on it that I need
to wipe. Is there some cleaver way of using "dd" to write
the alphabet across it? Any better ideas? (One pass is fine.)

Many thanks,
-T
.

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