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How to use ATA security on a hard disk in practice?
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Mar 15, 202610391 viewsConfidence Score0%
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My SSD HD supports ATA Security. Does Macbook EFI and linux support it? I know hdparm does. Who will do the unlock at each bootup? Can I still set a password without erasing the disk? Update: removed "SED full hard disk encryption" from the title based on comment by @ataboy. Some might still refer …
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Currently it is not possible to use ATA Security with Macs, the EFI does not implement this and freezes (locks) the drive after EFI initialization. So no further ATA security manipulation can be done with or alike. Even if you circumvent the ATA fre…
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