Hlafordlaes
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Originally posted by: The Fedex Pope
I wanted to run Dariks Boot and Nuke to wipe my 500gb SATA2 HD before I return it to BB. However, it fails, probly because it cant see the drive. When I turn Raid on in BIOS, it still fails. I tried all the disk wipe utils and they dont detect the HD. I burned the beta version of DBAN and still no go. Someone said that during POST you hit ctrl+z for SATA drives, but all that does is show me what the serial number is. There are options to move the array but since I only have 1 SATA HD they are greyed out. Is it even possible to wipe a SATA drive in DBAN or indeed any tool? I'm confused as to what Im supposed to do. The beta DBAN should support most SATA drives but it wont work on my rig.
Hadn't known of DBAN until your post; thanks.
Reading thru the program's FAQ, there's this:
Q: Does DBAN have SATA support?
A: Yes, the current release has full SATA support.
If DBAN does not detect a SATA controller running in native mode, then run the controller setup program and enable the "legacy PATA support" option. (ie: "Push <F2> to enter setup" when the computer starts.)
SATA drivers for new computers will be added to DBAN as they are published for Linux. Drivers for Microsoft Windows are incompatible with DBAN and cannot be added to DBAN...
Q: Why doesn't DBAN detect the SCSI disks attached to my RAID controller?
A: RAID controllers are unsupported. Only regular SCSI host adapters are supported.
Q: But I know people that use DBAN with RAID controllers...
Q: But why do you have changelog entries for RAID hardware?
A: DBAN does indeed have native drivers for most RAID implementations, but making it run can require configuration changes on the host. I cannot help if you lack enough clue to do this because I do not have hardware samples for development and testing. Send hardware if you want support for this equipment.
So it would appear that if it is to work at all, you must disable RAID mode in the BIOS. If that fails, the program does not support this chipset. Don't have a SATA drive myself else I'd test it.