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Gateway 450ROG, Toshiba MK4019GAX drive running PRNG
This is an interesting little message because while it appears that the erasure is progressing as normal, and the error counter still stands at 0, this message appears randomly scattered in black rectangles 8 or 9 times on the screen. Any expedient knowledge would be greatly appreciated, as I have to ship the drive off to Gateway in the next seven days. I should very much like to have my personal and accounting information hidden by then from any Joe who cares to pick the disk up after Gateway tosses it out, because the drive is defective and they want the old drive in exchange for the new replacement they sent while my warranty is still good.
I noticed another user with the same drive having a problem, though I see no relation: DBAN won't load after booting from CD-R
Do you think the drive is actually erasing? Or is it just an exercise in futility to try to protect my privacy and money?
Also note, the first operation performed on the disk, a blanking wipe, worked like a charm. DBAN's the only thing i've been able to get to work without error on this drive lately--the blanking function in Western Digital's hard drive scanner stalled out at about the halfway point.
This is an interesting little message because while it appears that the erasure is progressing as normal, and the error counter still stands at 0, this message appears randomly scattered in black rectangles 8 or 9 times on the screen. Any expedient knowledge would be greatly appreciated, as I have to ship the drive off to Gateway in the next seven days. I should very much like to have my personal and accounting information hidden by then from any Joe who cares to pick the disk up after Gateway tosses it out, because the drive is defective and they want the old drive in exchange for the new replacement they sent while my warranty is still good.
I noticed another user with the same drive having a problem, though I see no relation: DBAN won't load after booting from CD-R
Do you think the drive is actually erasing? Or is it just an exercise in futility to try to protect my privacy and money?
Also note, the first operation performed on the disk, a blanking wipe, worked like a charm. DBAN's the only thing i've been able to get to work without error on this drive lately--the blanking function in Western Digital's hard drive scanner stalled out at about the halfway point.