On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 17:17 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >> if I plug the old (not-very-healthy!) disk in to a sata-to-usb >> external adapter, and then hotplug the usb cable into the new machine >> on a usb port, I am guessing that I will not be able to pass hdparm >> commands to the old disk connected in this way > > It depends on the chips in the adapters (see hdparm docs). Mine don't > support it, and the only one of them that I can warn you about is the > Seagate desktop expansion drive, the others have no branding. OK thanks - if anyone knows of a specific adapter that *will* work I would like to know - of course having the drive in its internal bay is likely not to work either since many (most?) bioses will freeze the drive from the ata command viewpoint such that it can't be unlocked to pass the secure erase command anyway! So having an external adapter is probably the only way I can easily do it but I do need to know that there is an external adapter that will work. What I was unsure of is whether there is any that would work since I had been told that usb can't do it at all! (I did look at the hdparm man command but did not see the answer to the latter question) Mike -- mike c -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
