From: Robert Nicholson <robert.nicholson@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does the linux kernel contain support for ATA Security feature set?
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:50:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C2111E25-C51B-4AB1-96F5-A7C313B4B487@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090417004633.GB869@srcf.ucam.org>
So you're implying that it is possible to do a SECURE_ERASE using
hdparm then.
I don't know why but HDDERASE tool requires legacy IDE mode.
On Apr 16, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 06:49:59PM -0500, Robert Nicholson wrote:
>> So, I've got an X-25M that I want to securely erase and it turns out
>> on a Mac I'm not going to be able to issue the command because it
>> doesn't support legacy IDE mode from what I understand. So the idea
>> of
>> a any boot CD that I could boot and run a program that can issue a
>> SECURE_ERASE (SE) to the drive is only applicable to PC's.
>
> Why is the lack of legacy IDE an issue? hdparm works fine with SATA
> setups.
> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-17 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-16 23:49 Robert Nicholson
2009-04-17 0:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-17 0:50 ` Robert Nicholson [this message]
2009-04-17 0:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-19 19:32 ` Robert Nicholson
2009-04-17 9:29 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-17 16:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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