DBAN?

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raksasas

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Is DBAN (2.2.6) still recommend for wiping drives?

I have no problems using it in SATA systems but it seems to have probelms booting into it on an IDE system.

I get the following message:
ISOLINUX 4.00 4.00-pre46 ETCD Copywrite (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al
Reading sectors error (EDD)
ERROR: No configuration file found.

Any ideas? As I said it only comes up on IDE systems that I attempt to wipe.
 
I've used it on probably over 20 IDE drives...not a single problem (Short, Long, auto). Is this a slaved drive? Maybe instead of having the pin on CS, try the master. The drive is showing up in the bios, correct?
 
00PS said:
I've used it on probably over 20 IDE drives...not a single problem (Short, Long, auto). Is this a slaved drive? Maybe instead of having the pin on CS, try the master. The drive is showing up in the bios, correct?
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Just tried with all drives set to their master/slave settings (were all on Cable Select). IDE CDROM = Master, IDE CDR/W = Slave, Floppy drive = disabled, IDE Hard drive = Master, no slave hard drive

And they are seen in the BOIS.
Systems I have been tryinig to wipe are: Dell Dimension 4600 and Dell Dimension 3000
 
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That is really weird, maybe it is a bad ISO burn?

For the record, the 20+ drives I had done were all on Dell Dimension 2400's and 3000's. Not that it should have any effect, but are you using the last BIOS version (If I remember correctly it is A03).
 
00PS said:
That is really weird, maybe it is a bad ISO burn?

For the record, the 20+ drives I had done were all on Dell Dimension 2400's and 3000's. Not that it should have any effect, but are you using the last BIOS version (If I remember correctly it is A03).
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I am currently working on the 4600. BIOS was one of my thoughts so I updated it to A12 and same issue. Download version 2.0.0 and re-downloading 2.2.6
 
2.2.6 - gives error boot to the system
2.0.0 - won't even boot
1.0.7 - Works on the system.

*shrug*
 
Very strange, I'm out of ideas. Depending on your desire to use the 2.2.6 version you could try pulling the drives out of the 4600's and put them in a 3000 (assuming your 3000's work with that version). I have a few 4700's that I may be wiping in the near future, hopefully I don't run into these issues.
 
I use 1.0.7 for older system's with IDE, and 2.2.6 with modern machines.

No issues. I generally always try 2.2.6 and if it doesn't work then I revert to v1.0.7 as last resort.
 
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