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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YIPPIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The media card reader was my culprit. What worked for me was disconnecting the media card reader from the motherboard. From what I read online, disabling the USB controller in the BIOS would not work. If I had not had a USB keyboard maybe it would have worked. Anyway, the light purple cable end in the lower right area of the motherboard was the card reader. It was connected to F_USB1. I finally figured it out by Googling a replacement card reader where I could see a color pic of the part (and cable). Dell's website would not tell me the connector location on the motherboard.
And just as I had read this morning when Googling my DBAN errors, the drive I want to wipe is literally the only thing listed. I had 4 other unknown entries all from the card reader.
DBAN is running now, I'll post back again when it finishes. :)
Thank you all, and I hope all this helps someone else out.
Last edited by 2wheels; 25 Oct 2011 at 07:49. Reason: Typo