Disk Wiping Test: Darik’s Boot and Nuke 2.2.6

I had problems with it. It would hang at the PCI (sysfs) detection. To get DBAN to successfully boot, I had to disable the SD media card reader.

Version tested: Darik’s Boot and Nuke 2.2.6 (Beta)

Plus points:

Things I didn’t like:

having to disable the SD media card reader in BIOS.
the estimated time is wildly inaccurate.
Initial estimate 2hrs, actual time taken: 3hrs 17min

Test notes:

Ran in “autonuke” mode.
(DoD Short method, 3 pass and then verify on last wipe)
Apparently there is a USB installer, like the one the Active@ Killdisk product has.
Couldn’t find it.