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authorSean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>2019-12-30 19:34:45 +0000
committerSean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>2019-12-30 19:34:45 +0000
commitee5db85224ab31ef290ab64022c0813fd7241a33 (patch)
treee8e35d19f14166281791d389ff00d9cf774e197a
parent422e7bc31d7d3818e1f8a50cfec0713258fb9f29 (diff)
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-rwxr-xr-xbin/ata-secure-erase2
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diff --git a/bin/ata-secure-erase b/bin/ata-secure-erase
index c7b5f994..c47f5092 100755
--- a/bin/ata-secure-erase
+++ b/bin/ata-secure-erase
@@ -39,5 +39,7 @@ sudo hdparm -I "$device" | grep "not frozen"
sudo hdparm --user-master u --security-set-pass Eins "$device"
sudo hdparm -I "$device" | grep -v "not enabled"
+# drive may not support --security-erase-enhanced and so might need to
+# change following line to use --security-erase
sudo time hdparm --user-master u --security-erase-enhanced Eins "$device"
sudo hdparm -I "$device" | grep "not enabled"