Not able to wipe/sanitize a Capacity Enterprise 2TB drive...please help about openseachest

[MrM40]

Ahhh.......I first tried to erase it with the hdparm (hdparm --security-set-pass PASS /dev/sdb and hdparm --security-erase-enhanced PASS /dev/sdb) but got an error that's why I turned to SeaChest, but maybe it managed to set the password after all :-P

I'll try with "PASS"

[MrM40]

Yes, it worked flawlessly :-)
My mistake....thanks for your support :-)

[vonericsen]

Hi @MrM40,

According to the ataSecurityInfo, your drive is locked. Until it is unlocked, or provided a matching password for the erase, it cannot perform any of these actions as defined in the ATA & ACS specifications for the ATA security feature.

You can attempt to provide the password to it using --ataSecPassword yourPasswordHere when performing the erase, but depending on how it was set and by which BIOS set it, it may be encoded in some other form that these tools will not know. Some BIOS's will send the ASCII password to the drive, others will run some proprietary encoding method for this.

Your full command line to attempt using the password of your choice or that the drive knows would be
openSeaChest_Erase -d <yourDeviceHandle> --ataSecureErase normal --ataSecPassword <yourPasswordHere> --confirm <confirmation here>

If you can disable ATA security from the original machine with the original password, that will remove the need to specify a password and either sanitize or ATA security erase should be able to complete at that point. This is typically defined as a boot password in most BIOSs if you see it labelled as that.

[vonericsen]

Hi @MrM40,

Try using "PASS" either with openSeaChest or hdparm. That appears to be setting the password to that.
Let me know if you need any other assistance. 😃

[vonericsen]

That's great! Glad to hear that solved it for you!
Please close this issue when you are ready, or I can close it in a day or so in case you have anything else pop-up that is related to this.