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formatting hard drive (scrubbing)

I'm in the process of scrubbing a tonne of hard drives. Having a few problems with my formatting.

I've been following http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0600/scrub.pdf however on the steps of


Code:
#format> format
Ready to format. Formatting cannot be interrupted
and takes 100 minutes (estimated). Continue? y
Beginning format. The current date is Thu June 12 10:11:34 2008

98% complete (00:00:24 remaining) done

verifying media...
pass 0 - pattern = 0xc6dec6de

13 / 4 / 122

illegal instruction - core dumped


has my disk been formatted/scrubbed

I need to do "low-level" format on all my drives so i can give them out to externals.

Also this is manually done, no script is used

Thanks
 

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