Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:39:46 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel@roe.ch> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ATA Security patch to atacontrol Message-ID: <20080930023946.GA23425@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20080929230655.GA16790@hobbes.ustdmz.roe.ch> References: <20080929230655.GA16790@hobbes.ustdmz.roe.ch>
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:06:55AM +0200, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote: > I've added experimental support for the ATA Security command set to > atacontrol. Please test and review. If you have some spare disk(s) > with ATA Security support and a BIOS which does not freeze the security > configuration, I'd like to hear about any results of playing with this > patch. See the changes to the manual page for details on the commands. > > Note that you may render disks unusable using the ATA Security commands. > Use with great care. > > http://daniel.roe.ch/code/ata/atasecurity-20080930-complete.diff Daniel, Can you provide me datasheet and technical reference material to what "ATA Security" is? Which ATA specification is this documented in? I'd like to read it. Thanks! -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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