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Re: [tlug] Locked Laptop Drive



Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> Michal Hajek wrote:
> > * Tobias Diedrich (ranma@example.com) [051127 17:58]:
> > > BTW, you can use "hdparm -I /dev/hd?" to find out if your drives
> > > supports those security features (look for the "^Security:"-Section.
> > 
> > Just for the curiosity ... does anyone know how to find out with SATA
> > drive?  The above mentioned command does not work for me (I have SATA
> > drive). But I found a hint about using "sdparm" for SCSI and SATA
> > drives. Thus I have tried it and here is what it says (using sdparm
> > version: 0.95 20050729):
> 
> For SATA you need a _very_ recent kernel (2.6.15-rc AFAIK) or
> manually patch yours with the libata passthrough patches.  After
> that I'd kind of expect hdparm to work.  (But can't test ATM, my
> Notebook has SATA, but is still on 2.6.14.2 :-))

Oh, and I'd wager 100円 that every SATA drive supports these
security features, since they got introduced into the spec before
SATA came out AFAIK.

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Tobias						PGP: http://9ac7e0bc.uguu.de


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