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My understanding on the spec is one can do Security Erase without password. Regards, Joseph -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Jansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [t13] Back to the main problem. Please read This message is from the T13 list server. Curtis Stevens wrote: >This message is from the T13 list server. > > >Pat > > Currently the ATA through SCSI community is not affected because >there is no real translation from SCSI to ATA security. This could be an >issue in the future when ATA pass-though is implemented. > > I think that we should also note that the drive need not be >returned. Security Erase is used to clear the password along with the data. >This does give the user a way to retrieve the drive if it gets passworded. > > > Not as far as I understand the standard. The drive will only accept the Security Erase command when either the master or user password is supplied. In case of a virus both passwords will be set to random. This was the original question I asked.... :-) Sincerely, Thomas
