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jpk

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Registered: 2011-09-27

Posts: 13

[solved] Hard disk security parameters freeze during boot

Hi fellow archers!

Currently I am trying to pin point a problem I have. I have an old PC of mine setup as some kind of experimental playground. My problem is that the security options of my driver become frozen during powering up this PC. It is a fresh and empty Arch installation with just sshd running and no services has been installed that should set the drive security-freeze. I am trying to figure out who is locking it, my current suspicion is the mainboard/BIOS itself, but I need to be sure, that there is no script during executing Arch boot setting the freeze parameter. -- Oh if someone one if the ASUS A8N32-SLI is doing such nasty stuff, it would be great to know.
Thanks in advance for your feedback

Last edited by jpk (2011-10-15 13:19:20)

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: [solved] Hard disk security parameters freeze during boot

This is more an installation related problem.
So moving to Installation.

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jpk

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Registered: 2011-09-27

Posts: 13

Re: [solved] Hard disk security parameters freeze during boot

Hi, it's not really a fix for the problem, but I now know what happens. It is really the mainboard BIOS who freezes the security state of my hdds. So what I did was to build a power switch for my hdd. During boot I switch the power and linux will detect the sata drive (haven't tested it with IDE drives) and I can work with it.