If I issue an hdparm secure erase against a drive that does not have it?
If I issue an hdparm secure erase against a drive that does not have it?
I am zeroing out some old drive - some may not have secure erase. If I issue the command:
hpparm --security-erase-enhanced
Against a drive that does not have this feature, will it error? Man does not tell me.
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You will get an error
Not in my case.
After I posted :
I ran hdparm --security... and did not get an error.Then I ran hpparm -I and found that the drive did not have the secure erase feature.
So I did not get the error on a drive that should have errored. I am guessing the Security Erase command just spews the appropriate command at the drive and nothing Is reported back.
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