Waiting for disks to reappear

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I carried out a 7 pass secure erase on a lacie 250GB external drive but disk utility seems to be hanging &#x27;waiting for disks to reappear&#x27;. I use a macbook pro and snow leopard, I note a few other comments on this in the forums but no answers as of yet... Just putting it back out there.. The disk is still connected and disk utility still running.. Any suggestions?

Sioca · Answer

I&#x27;ve left this all day and with no answers am going to leave it overnight...Disk utility shows 250.06 GB ST925082 7AS Media on one line in dark text but the next line stating &#x27;disk2s2&#x27; is in faded text and System profiler shows the following..  Capacity:          250.06 GB (250,059,350,016 bytes)  Removable Media:          Yes  Detachable Drive:          Yes  BSD Name:          disk2  Product ID:          0x100d  Vendor ID:          0x059f  (LaCie)  Version:           0.00  Serial Number:          152******0B6  Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec  Manufacturer:          LaCie  Location ID:          0xfd100000 / 4  Current Available (mA):          500  Current Required (mA):          2  Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)  S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported  Volumes:  Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)  Writable:          Yes  BSD Name:          disk2s1  Capacity:          249.72 GB (249,715,376,128 bytes)  Writable:          Yes  File System:          Journaled HFS+  BSD Name:          disk2s2&lt;Edited By Host&gt;