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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Kristin Vadas Marsicano <kristin.marsicano@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trouble with hdparm -d on Dell D610
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:08:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47884B5C.8060704@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f68de3e0801111349i2518924bj7bcfd7b5e9c604e2@mail.gmail.com>

Kristin Vadas Marsicano wrote:
>..
> For now, my desired action is to overwrite the drives with random
> characters.  My understanding is that security erase commands are
> implemented in the firmware, and that it may be buggy.  Please correct
> me if my understanding is incorrect.  Also, is there a way to invoke
> the firmware security erase with a linux command?
..

For libata managed drives (/dev/sd*):

    hdparm --security-erase ...

(see also:  hdparm --security-help)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-12  5:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-11 19:18 Trouble with hdparm -d on Dell D610 Kristin Vadas Marsicano
2008-01-11 19:30 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-11 19:49   ` Kristin Vadas Marsicano
2008-01-11 19:55     ` Alan Cox
2008-01-11 20:27       ` Kristin Vadas Marsicano
2008-01-11 21:05         ` Alan Cox
2008-01-11 21:27           ` Kristin Vadas Marsicano
2008-01-11 21:34             ` Alan Cox
2008-01-11 21:49               ` Kristin Vadas Marsicano
2008-01-11 21:54                 ` Greg Freemyer
2008-01-12  5:08                 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-01-11 21:51               ` Greg Freemyer
2008-01-12  0:06                 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-14 22:48               ` Kristin Vadas Marsicano
2008-01-14 23:14                 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-15 18:26               ` Kristin Vadas Marsicano

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