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)
next prev 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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