03-09-2009, 03:35 PM
Ok, guess we need more info...
I am wiping clean a 5400-rpm, 60-gig drive with 8-pass zeroing-out. I did not boot from an install DVD but from the 120-gig boot drive I have in there.
The drive is installed in a G4 933 PowerMac. I am now thinking that one reason why this is taking so long is that the drive might be hooked up to the ATA connector that is meant for the Zip drive. That's an ATA-33 connector I think versus the normal ATA-66.
The ATA-66 connector normally handles two drives but there may be a dead IBM drive hooked into it.
I am wiping clean a 5400-rpm, 60-gig drive with 8-pass zeroing-out. I did not boot from an install DVD but from the 120-gig boot drive I have in there.
The drive is installed in a G4 933 PowerMac. I am now thinking that one reason why this is taking so long is that the drive might be hooked up to the ATA connector that is meant for the Zip drive. That's an ATA-33 connector I think versus the normal ATA-66.
The ATA-66 connector normally handles two drives but there may be a dead IBM drive hooked into it.