ATA Security patch to atacontrol

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:06:55AM +0200, Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
> I've added experimental support for the ATA Security command set to
> atacontrol.  Please test and review.  If you have some spare disk(s)
> with ATA Security support and a BIOS which does not freeze the security
> configuration, I'd like to hear about any results of playing with this
> patch.  See the changes to the manual page for details on the commands.
> 
> Note that you may render disks unusable using the ATA Security commands.
> Use with great care.
> 
> http://daniel.roe.ch/code/ata/atasecurity-20080930-complete.diff

Daniel,

Can you provide me datasheet and technical reference material to what
"ATA Security" is?  Which ATA specification is this documented in?  I'd
like to read it.

Thanks!

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