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

Thanks,
Chris
 
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
 
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:[email protected]. 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.
 
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
 
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