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From: Robert Nicholson <robert.nicholson@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Does the linux kernel contain support for ATA Security feature set?
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:49:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CC1C24F4-B448-4453-BA6C-EF436231B267@gmail.com> (raw)

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.

So does the Linux kernel support the ATA security set then? or does  
it, like OSX have protective measures to stop abuse of those features.

             reply	other threads:[~2009-04-16 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-16 23:49 Robert Nicholson [this message]
2009-04-17  0:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-17  0:50   ` Robert Nicholson
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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