From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 02:39:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5871065698 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:39:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B99F78FC1B for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:39:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.35]) by QMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Lg4A1a00F0lTkoCAAqfo1o; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:39:48 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.253.227]) by OMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Lqfm1a00X4v8bD78QqfnKn; Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:39:48 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=Kci50sesAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=i5GcQkaDu0u7Bfz-8PEA:9 a=zJj81XInrd5hwH00m1MA:7 a=Alwg56KnAdG8CJGjXpOgNcEkk8AA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E6E2EC9432; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:39:46 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Daniel Roethlisberger Message-ID: <20080930023946.GA23425@icarus.home.lan> References: <20080929230655.GA16790@hobbes.ustdmz.roe.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080929230655.GA16790@hobbes.ustdmz.roe.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt Subject: Re: ATA Security patch to atacontrol X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:39:48 -0000 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 |