8-o Nooooooooo!!!
EDIT/
It's possible to erase hard drives non-destructively with a magnetic bulk tape eraser, or so I hear.
It would be good if you could save any Pbook SCSI drives that come your way. ** Perhaps you could set up an old Mac for erasing. A Duo 2300 motherboard would be ideal, as it has both laptop-sized IDE and SCSI connectors onboard. A small IDE drive for boot and utilities (and stashing drivers [
] ]'> ) and the SCSI port for erasing. Barring that, any SCSI based Powerbook booting from an external SCSI drive or a CD.EDIT/ ** especially the ones larger than 700MB that often have the mini SCSI to IDE converter board mounted underneath. These boards can apparently take up to a 4GB IDE drive