Since no one has responded to the original post let me rephrase it.
Has anyone zeroed a hard drive, of any kind, in Panther lately? If so, How long did it take? This is coming up on 70 hours and it is still not a quarter of the way finished for a 2GB hard drive.
I'm just trying to get a handle on the expected time frame.
Thank goodness for true multitasking in OSX.
I haven't tried it. But I will do so as soon as our new PB returns home. Housemates took it on a week-long trip.
FWIW, zeroing an IDE (with or without a firewire or usb bridge) should be reasonably quick. It's a *single* command sent to the HD. Take the HD's write speed times its capacity and that's how long it should take. Maybe double that if you told it to verify...
- Dan.
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