What does screen show when a hard drive erase is in progress?

Prior to sale, I am wiping the hard drive clean using original 10.5.2 discs on a 2008 era MacBook Pro. I haven't been thru this process previously. Setting up the erase from the discs was smooth. Being paranoid, I chose a 7-pass erase - I knew it would be "long" but not how long. When the erase process started, a window included the information of it taking up to 7 hours. The screen is now dark and acts like the computer is in sleep mode, but does not awaken with any keystroke. Should I be able to follow the (long) process on a window? I don't want to wait for hours and not be able to identify the end point. Also, I expected that I would hear some hard drive activity during the process, and it seems like all I hear is the fan. Can anyone who has done this share what to expect?

I presume these are all external, non-NAS drives? Have you tried disk utility repair disk and repair permissions?

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