This project starded from a modified local script heavily based on a mac issues article by Topher Kessler.

It's hard to take the eject messages seriously since 99.9% of the time everything is fine. But sometimes it goes wrong. REALLY wrong. Sometimes all you want to do is start over, but the wussy osx macbook won't let you.

This is a last resort little script that completely fecks up a hard drive by attempting to randomly write over it. However the idea is that it "unsticks" the hard drive. Then you can start again from some sort of diskutil thing.

Be careful which disk you attack! By default the script "attacks" dev/disk2 so you'll need to change this to whatever disk is causing you problems. You should already know which one is causing the problems. Use diskutil list just to be sure.

1. cd to the download directory and run the following command to make the script executable:

chmod 777 deep.sh

2. Now switch to root in the Terminal

sudo su

3. And finally run the script, immediately followed by attaching your drive to the Mac:

./deep.sh

4. Plug in the hard drive.

5. Wait for the script to stop for a bit, then close the terminal and terminate processes.

6.Get out of root by closing the terminal or ctrl C/D (I forget which)

7. Run diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Test /dev/disk2 again being careful to check which disk needs erasing (it may have changed since last time you checked diskutil list). The disk is now as good as new and all your old data is gone.

8. Check your activity monitor. If you see bash running it means the loop is still going (unless you ran some other bash script with root permission). If bash is still running in root then run:

sudo killall bash

9. Pray that this works otherwise it's a hardware thing...