Kristin Vadas Marsicano wrote:
.. For now, my desired action is to overwrite the drives with random characters. My understanding is that security erase commands are implemented in the firmware, and that it may be buggy. Please correct me if my understanding is incorrect. Also, is there a way to invoke the firmware security erase with a linux command?
.. For libata managed drives (/dev/sd*): hdparm --security-erase ... (see also: hdparm --security-help) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
