03-09-2009, 03:03 PM
IronMac wrote:
Well over 12 hrs later, it's only about a third of the way done.
malfunction, wish I had seen that link earlier! I would have gone with only one pass instead of eight.
Oh yeah, it's an internal drive.
Were you doing a full erase of the drive, or just a "zero unused space" type of operation. The latter will likely take longer.
Also were you booted from the install CD/DVD, that's the only way I've ever done this, especially an internal drive.
What computer? Is it an old iBook with a 4200 RPM drive?
If it take 36 hours, then you're only seeing about 3.7 MB/Sec write speed which is really slow.