On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does the hdparm secure erase work on most motherboards? It seems that > most of newer boards have a bios that disables the secure erase at bios > boot time. Only my oldest mobo allows me to use the security erase. I > find that I have to move my drives to that motherboard before I can > erase them, which is a royal pain in the neck. (All the systems are > running the exact same F13 64-bit fully up to date OS.) It depends on the BIOS. A lot of them freeze the device and so preventing the security-erase. Have a look at your disk with hdparm -I. In the last paragraph it will tell you if your disk is frozen. I use a usb-sata-adapter to issue security-erase commands to drives. You could also try to hotplug your disk. hannes -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
