Wondering if anyone could tell about how long it will take to perform 3 passes on a 72 GB disk? I have a Sun V240 and will have to format all 4. Thanks.
I'm guessing your purpose is to bleach the drive ... I've recently did the same on 18Gb disks but didn't timed it. Was completed the next morning. when I did the same on a san, over 1Tb it took more than the W-E ...
There are other way to blank a disk , using dd and /dev/random as input is one ...
- Laurent