Secure Erase

[Maclver]

Ok. So I finally got a Macbook Air. I came from a 2010 Macbook Pro, but I do have a question.

I know with TRIM enabled this really isn't an issue but how does one do a ATA Secure Erase on the Macbook Air?

On my MBP I used a Ubuntu CD and ran the command code that way. Any ideas?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Disc Utility, booted either from the Recovery partition or the Lion installer on a 4GB USB flash memory thumb drive. Or is that not enough?

 

[Maclver]

Disc Utility, booted either from the Recovery partition or the Lion installer on a 4GB USB flash memory thumb drive. Or is that not enough?

No not really... I want the ability to make the SSD blocks free not use the Mac's secure erase which just writes over the blocks

 

[KPOM]

I think the only way to do that would be to boot from a USB drive into Linux and run a Secure ATA command from there. I don't believe OS X has those commands built in.