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I have a scsi 1gig drive I'm trying to erase with eraser. I create the
boot disk and it starts fine but after about 15 minutes it stops and
says it finished with non-fatal errors. At 1300k/sec it should take at
least 90 minutes to finish 1 pass and I'm having it do 7 passes so for
some reason it aborts the process.

Does anyone know why its stopping and what I can do to get it to do at
least 7 passes ?

Thanks,
Chris

ps. computer is a 486dx2 non-pci. I'd erase on another computer but
this is the only computer with a scsi controller card.

 

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The SCSI Card is an adaptec AHA-1540C/1542C Bios V1.01. I'll check to
see if it has a format.

Thanks,
Chris

 

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Ok I ran the two utilities. I check the integrity and it passed. I
then had it format the drive. I re-booted using the eraser bootdisk
and it aborted after about 13 minutes. Below is the log file from the
floppy:

[2005/05/22 15:44:05] dban: Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.1 started.
[2005/05/22 15:44:05] dban: Found floppy drive /dev/floppy/0.
[2005/05/22 15:44:07] dban: Found 0 seed files on the floppy disk.
[2005/05/22 15:44:12] dban: Wipe started.
[2005/05/22 15:46:42] dban: DBAN finished with non-fatal errors. The
disks were not properly wiped, or there were verification errors.

[2005/04/22 15:44:12] dwipe: notice: Program loaded.
[2005/04/22 15:44:12] dwipe: notice: Opened entropy source
'/dev/urandom'.
[2005/04/22 15:44:12] dwipe: info: Automatically enumerated 1 devices.
[2005/04/22 15:46:42] dwipe: dwipe_main: shmget: Invalid argument.
[2005/04/22 15:46:42] dwipe: fatal: Unable to allocate shared memory
for the context array.

Thanks,
Chris

 

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<socialism001@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have a scsi 1gig drive I'm trying to erase with eraser. I create the
> boot disk and it starts fine but after about 15 minutes it stops and
> says it finished with non-fatal errors. At 1300k/sec it should take at
> least 90 minutes to finish 1 pass and I'm having it do 7 passes so for
> some reason it aborts the process.
>
> Does anyone know why its stopping and what I can do to get it to do at
> least 7 passes ?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> ps. computer is a 486dx2 non-pci. I'd erase on another computer but
> this is the only computer with a scsi controller card.
>
What SCSI card? Many SCSI cards have built-in drive test and format
routines, Adaptec is Ctrl-A. Drive may be faulty, causing Eraser to
terminate.
Mike.

 

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Ever try the hard drive in another computer to wipe it out (Eraser)?
It could be the SCSI Card. IF not, I don't know if your a fan of
SpinRite 6.0, but it could be a bad sector tripping your eraser. Try
SpinRite on level 4 test. This should tell you if each sector of the
hard drive is good. It does a read and write test by inverting the 0
and 1. It also will recover data and copy them onto a good sector,
marking the bad sector. This site will give you a better overview of
Spinrite. <http://grc.com/sroverview.htm>. And this site shows an
interview with the maker of Spinrite, Steve Gibson. If you need a
copy, try my ftp site: ftp://eraser:eraser@icon256.homeftp.net. Cut
and paste this into your IE browser or firefox. This should login
automatically, if not(or you don't like [Microsoft] IE, lol, you can
use an ftp client: ftp://icon256.homeftp.net l/p: eraser/eraser This
ftp site will be up only for a short time for you specially. Hope this
works for you. Post more if you need help.

 

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I tried spinrite and it didn't find anything wrong with the drive. I
found if I ran the program in interactive mode I could either wipe the
whole disk or just the partition. When I selected just the partition
it worked and completed all 35 passes with success (the partition was
100% of the disk). That is two of my drives passed with success and 1
failed the verification but I'm pretty sure it got wiped cause it went
through all 35 passes. Just have one more 386 computer to wipe and
then I can get rid of these computers.

Thanks,
Chris