I'm in the process of scrubbing a tonne of hard drives. Having a few problems with my formatting.
I've been following Hardware | Oracle however on the steps of
#format> format
Ready to format. Formatting cannot be interrupted
and takes 100 minutes (estimated). Continue? y
Beginning format. The current date is Thu June 12 10:11:34 2008
98% complete (00:00:24 remaining) done
verifying media...
pass 0 - pattern = 0xc6dec6de
13 / 4 / 122
illegal instruction - core dumped
has my disk been formatted/scrubbed
I need to do "low-level" format on all my drives so i can give them out to externals.
Also this is manually done, no script is used
Thanks