Re: [tlug] Locked Laptop Drive

[Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com>]

Michal Hajek wrote:
> Hi :)
> 
> * 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 :-))

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