Can you give me a little more detail about what happened? It is not supposed to be possible to do what your have described. The hardware abstraction layer of the Mac OS normally prevents any running application except actual drive tools from having direct access to the Hard Disk. The only way to "quick wipe" a SCSI hard disk that I've ever seen work is to connect a PowerBook in SCSI disk mode to another machine that has an empty hard drive and then flick the selector switch on the SCSI adapter back and forth from on to off. Even that only kills the Boot director sector and not the whole disk. Disk Warrior should be able to recover everything.
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