Western Digital Drive w/ 8MB Cache - Huge Wipe Times

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Hi,

I am using a Western Digital 120 GB WD1200JB harddrive with an 8 Mb cache. When I run DBAN .5 on it it takes 7 days to get to 40% on the full wipe.

Having wiped other drives in the 40 Gb range with smaller or no cache, they usually take about 24-30 hours. Therefore DBAN should take from 72 to 90 hours on a 120 Gb drive. What gives? Is it the cache size?
Does DBAN have problems with the WD1200JB?
I assume that DBAN knows how to handle drive caches when wiping regardless of the size.

Any help is appreciate.

Thanks.
 
When I run DBAN .5
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There is no such version of DBAN. If the DBAN screen is black, then you are probably running dban-0.4.0. If the DBAN screen is blue, then you are running dban-1.0.0.

Having wiped other drives in the 40 Gb range with smaller or no cache, they usually take about 24-30 hours. Therefore DBAN should take from 72 to 90 hours on a 120 Gb drive. What gives?
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By default, DBAN tries to use DMA access, but it will silently fall-back to PIO access if there are I/O problems, which is much slower. Perhaps your IDE cable is inadequate. Send the log file to me.

Does DBAN have problems with the WD1200JB?
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Prior to you post, there have been no problem reports involving this disk.
 
Thanks for your reply,

Your right it is version 0.4.0. I will try verion 1.0.0 and if the problem continues I will email you my log file. What is your email address?

Gratefully Yours.
 
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