[2cansandastring]

Hello. Can someone tell me if the wipe worked?

There were no errors for any of the passes (but there were warnings, shown below).

The error was on verify (I/O error) and notices said wipe finished but then wipe incomplete.

Thank you.



[2009/07/01 09:21:53] dwipe: notice: Starting pass 7 of 7, round 1 of 1, on device '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc'.
[2009/07/01 10:01:25] dwipe: warning: dwipe_random_pass: The size of '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc' is not a multiple of its block size 1024.
[2009/07/01 10:01:40] dwipe: notice: Finished pass 7 of 7, round 1 of 1, on device '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc'.
[2009/07/01 10:01:40] dwipe: notice: Finished round 1 of 1 on device '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc'.
[2009/07/01 10:01:40] dwipe: notice: Blanking device '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc'.
[2009/07/01 10:17:25] dwipe: warning: dwipe_random_pass: The size of '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' is not a multiple of its block size 1024.
[2009/07/01 10:18:11] dwipe: notice: Finished pass 7 of 7, round 1 of 1, on device '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc'.
[2009/07/01 10:18:11] dwipe: notice: Finished round 1 of 1 on device '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc'.
[2009/07/01 10:18:11] dwipe: notice: Blanking device '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc'.
[2009/07/01 10:33:26] dwipe: warning: dwipe_static_pass: The size of '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc' is not a multiple of its block size 1024.
[2009/07/01 10:33:45] dwipe: notice: Verifying that '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc' is empty.
[2009/07/01 10:33:45] dwipe: error: dwipe_static_verify: read: Input/output error
[2009/07/01 10:33:45] dwipe: error: Unable to read from '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc'.
[2009/07/01 10:41:59] dwipe: warning: dwipe_static_pass: The size of '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' is not a multiple of its block size 1024.
[2009/07/01 10:42:04] dwipe: notice: Verifying that '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' is empty.
[2009/07/01 10:42:04] dwipe: error: dwipe_static_verify: read: Input/output error
[2009/07/01 10:42:04] dwipe: error: Unable to read from '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc'.
[2009/07/01 10:42:06] dwipe: notice: Wipe finished.
[2009/07/01 10:42:06] dwipe: notice: Wipe of device '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' incomplete.
[2009/07/01 10:42:06] dwipe: notice: Wipe of device '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc' incomplete.

[lawson_jl]

SOunds to me as if the drive has errors or the program had issues reading the drive. In any case it's probabley wiped and probabley not all that relieable of a drive.

[2cansandastring]

The strange thing is that two different drives of two different brands from (originally) two different computers have the same messages in the same DBAN session.

What are the odds of both drives having the same fault?

[lawson_jl]

Every drive has bad sectors even new ones so I'm not surprised you would have errors in the log. I've never actually used DBAN on more then a 3 pass and I think there have been errors on every log I've checked.