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Except for my problem, DBAN is a great tool.
On two machines, the wipe speed is very, very slow. Additionally, the CPU load shows 200%. The first machine was HT enabled so thought that both virtual CPUs were enabled. However, the second machine is a non-HT enabled CPU.
I read here that DBAN silently falls back to PIO mode when DMA isn't available. When running XP Pro, DMA was not a problem.
Currently, the throughput is 3300 kb/s and from my experience a single pass will take 12+ hours.
Any thoughts? The non-HT machine is a 2.6mhz P4 with an 40gb WD IDE drive. I'm running DBAN 1.0.0 from CD.
Thanks in advance.
On two machines, the wipe speed is very, very slow. Additionally, the CPU load shows 200%. The first machine was HT enabled so thought that both virtual CPUs were enabled. However, the second machine is a non-HT enabled CPU.
I read here that DBAN silently falls back to PIO mode when DMA isn't available. When running XP Pro, DMA was not a problem.
Currently, the throughput is 3300 kb/s and from my experience a single pass will take 12+ hours.
Any thoughts? The non-HT machine is a 2.6mhz P4 with an 40gb WD IDE drive. I'm running DBAN 1.0.0 from CD.
Thanks in advance.