From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Robert Nicholson <robert.nicholson@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does the linux kernel contain support for ATA Security feature set?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:46:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090417004633.GB869@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CC1C24F4-B448-4453-BA6C-EF436231B267@gmail.com>
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.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-17 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-16 23:49 Does the linux kernel contain support for ATA Security feature set? Robert Nicholson
2009-04-17 0:46 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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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