On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2012-08-07 10:00, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 07/08/12 17:54, Per Jessen wrote:
Only way to find out is to give the distributor a call :-) , but I don't see why it shouldn't work as the password is built-in into the controller on the HDD.
in Linux, look at man hdparm, the "ATA Security Feature Set" section. If it works (I have never tried it) in linux is a CLI command and mount it. In Windows you need a program (?) to access the same features.
I would like to know of people using this feature, that they tell their experiences with it...
The ATA security feature is a access control feature, not a encryption feature. I have seen it used on laptops a number of times, but in general if a company wants to have their info encrypted, they don't use the ATA access control feature. I don't recall ever seeing ATA access control used on a desktop computer or on an external disk, and I see a few hundred client drives each year (lots of random clients, so it's a reasonable sample.). fyi: to bypass the access control is not trivial, but there are definitely commercial tools you can buy to do it (~$10K per my understanding) or you can have a data recovery company do it as a service. (Not sure what they charge). Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org