Error Handling Options

Error handling attributes

KillDisk allows you to select one of three ways to handle Read/Write Errors:

Abort entire disk group processing

This means that if you're running a batch erase and one of the disks has errors, the erase process for ALL the disks in the batch will be terminated

Abort only failed disk from group processing

This is the suggested setting. Failed disks will return an error and terminate the erase process, but other disks in the batch will not be interrupted from completing the erase operation

Ignore error for disk grouping

Ignores the read/write error and continues erasing wherever is possible on the disk. No active or forth going operations are terminated

Terminate process after number of errors

Sets the error threshold to a certain amount before the disk operation is terminated and deemed unsuccessful

Number of Read/Write attempts

Sets the number of attempts KillDisk make to perform an operation when an error is encountered before it stops command execution

Use disk lock

Locks disks from being used by any other applications

Ignore disk lock errors

Errors encountered with KillDisk not being able to access locked disks are ignored

Ignore read/write errors

Toggle whether errors should appear for read and/or write errors.

Rely upon disk performance

Set a minimum acceptable read/write speed in megabytes per second for disks to flag underperforming drives.

SMART Diagnostics

SMART attributes may also be used in error handling, so threshold limits may be set on some or all of the disks SMART parameters. This may speed up processing by immediately terminating operations with unusable drives.

Figure: SMART Diagnostics