On 08/22/2018 08:35 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Package: hdparm > Version: 9.56+ds-2 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > trying to secure-erase a hard disk I ran into errors - which probably > are rather due to a faulty drive or bugs in the support of the usb2sata > brigde, so not probably hdparms's fault: After a while, hdparm aborts: > > | # hdparm --verbose --user-master u --security-erase-enhanced p /dev/sdb > | security_password: "p" > | > | /dev/sdb: > | APT: USB ID = 0x13fd:0x1340 (0x210) > | APT: Unsupported device > | Issuing SECURITY_ERASE command, password="p", user=user > > | trying legacy HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE > | rc=-1, errno=22, returned ATA registers: > + The running kernel lacks CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL support for this device. > | SECURITY_ERASE: Invalid argument > | > | real 0m14,943s > | user 0m0,000s > | sys 0m0,008s > > The confusing part is the message about missing CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL > support in the kernel. Technically correct, but this option was part > of the ide support, superseeded by libata several years ago. This > option isn't available even in oldoldstable. > > So, either there is a counterpart in libata, then please adjust this > accordingly. Or remove this notice. Needless to say I'd prefer the first > outcome ... > > Regards, > > Christoph
Hi, > | APT: USB ID = 0x13fd:0x1340 (0x210) Was the drive connected over a usb-bridge by chance? I've opened a "Support request" on upstream's bug tracker: https://sourceforge.net/p/hdparm/support-requests/7/ May be you'd like to comment there as well. Regards, Alex
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