DBAN does not yet have a good driver for your motherboard chipset. Wait for the next release or provide a hardware sample. Most vendors that are using the HPA have a toggle for it in the BIOS setup program. Future releases of DBAN may override or dishonor the HPA.

DBAN is the acronym for DataBase of Assigned Names. The DBAN is the database maintained by the ccTLD "it" Registry where all data regarding domain names assigned under ccTLD "it" is kept (section 4.1 Regulations).

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.

DBAN has been run on a computer with 100 SCSI hard disks. There are no artificial limits in DBAN, but bus bandwidth is usually a limiting factor in practical application. The actual maximum device count is limited by the number of bits allocated for major device numbers in the kernel, which can be changed.

I will not issue a statement of conformity to you because I consider it a kind of warranty or promise. If you need a statement of conformance, then you must buy an EBAN contract. If, however, you find a deviation or can suggest some way to improve the conformity of DBAN, then the software will be enhanced appropriately.

You must reinstall drivers for this hardware after reinstalling the operating system. These drivers were factory installed, but they may not be on the Microsoft Windows installation or rescue media. All major computer manufacturers provide drivers for Microsoft Windows on their web sites.

Yes, DBAN can be started with Hans Lermen's LOADLIN.EXE program. DBAN can also be started with programs like SysLinux and Grub. Copy the kernel.bzi and initrd.gz files from the DBAN floppy disk to a DOS filesystem and run this command: You can put this command in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Do not change the forward-slash characters to back-slash characters. Note that DBAN cannot return to DOS. Run the BIOS setup program and put the floppy drive and ROM drive first in the boot order.

This is a recurring problem that was partially fixed in the dban-1.0.3 release and should be fully fixed in the dban-1.0.4 release. A hardware sample has been donated.

DBAN will still work properly if your BIOS does not detect all of the hard disks in your computer, or if your BIOS has disk size limitations. The BIOS need only be capable of starting DBAN from the boot media.

DBAN may fail to detect a hard disk in a computer with many hard disks. You must check whether DBAN actually detected all hard disks in a computer. Your hardware caches writes or otherwise does not implement a functional write barrier. This is likely to happen with battery-backed large-memory RAID controllers or defective hard disks.

If you rebrand DBAN without my permission, then I will send an unadulterated copy of DBAN to your customers and submit a GPL fulfilment demand to your legal department. This includes changing the product banner to "Disk Wipe" or a similarly generic name.

Note, however, that most IDE-RAID devices are not really hardware implementations. DBAN uses these devices as regular IDE controllers.

The mkisofs utility is used to generate the ISO file directly from the contents of the EXE file. The IMA file is booted from the cdrom with floppy disk emulation.

The Microsoft Windows installer will automatically create a partition and filesystem during installation. Using FDISK after running DBAN is usually unnecessary.

The Microsoft Windows installation media that you are using only has ATA-5 support, which has a 128 gigabyte limit. The operating system installer must have ATA-6 support to use all of a disk that is larger than 128 gigabytes. The solution is to reinstall with Windows 2000 SP4 media or Windows XP SP1 media. If you do not have recent Microsoft Windows media, then research a "windows slipstream install" for instructions about how to create it.