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Juul opened this issue Mar 3, 2023 · 3 comments
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Support ATA Secure Erase? #182

Juul opened this issue Mar 3, 2023 · 3 comments
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@Juul
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Juul commented Mar 3, 2023

Currently completely wiping an SSD on Linux systems is usually accomplished using hdparm and Secure Erase or Enhanced Secure Erase.

Unfortunately hdparm doesn't support many USB bridges so securely erasing a drive often involves finding a desktop computer and hooking up the drive directly with SATA / NVMe.

smartmontools has great bridge support. Would adding Secure Erase support be totally out of scope for smartmontools?
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Many years ago, smartmontools developers decided to avoid inclusion of features which may brick devices. Examples include functions marked as DANGEROUS on man hdparm. Therefore the only available ATA Security functionality is SECURITY FREEZE.

I agree that ATA Secure Erase would be a useful feature. A related patch would possibly be accepted if:

  • It was successfully tested with various devices from different vendors and via different (USB-)controllers.
  • The related code is disabled by default and could be enabled by package maintainers with ./configure --with-ata-security.

See our Links page for an older smartmontools fork which adds some ATA Security functionality:
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Links#MirrorsandForksofsmartmontools

Leaving issue open as undecided for now.

@Juul
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Juul commented Mar 3, 2023

Thank you for the detailed response! I will read and ponder.

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ehem commented Nov 15, 2024

This overlaps with #133. A whole bunch of tools really want smartmontools's controller command pass-through capability, except it isn't a separate library.

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