10.8.39 SECURITY ERASE UNIT (F4h)

COMMAND CODE

 

1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0

REGISTER

 

REGISTER SETTING

NORMAL COMPLETION

DR

 

DRIVE No.

no change

CY

 

 

 

no change

HD

 

 

 

no change

SN

 

 

 

no change

SC

 

 

 

no change

FT

 

 

 

no change

This command must be issued immediately after the SECURITY ERASE PREPARE command.

This command requests to transfer a sector of data from the host including the data specified in the following table. If the password does not match, the drive rejects the command with an Aborted command error.

 

 

Security Erase Unit Information

 

 

 

Word

 

Content

0

Control word

 

Bit 15-1

Reserved

 

Bit 0

Identifier 0=compare user password

 

 

1=compare master password

1-16

Password (32 bytes)

17-255

Reserved

 

The SECURITY ERASE UNIT command erases all user data. The SECURITY ERASE PREPARE command must be completed immediately prior to the SECURITY ERASE UNIT command, otherwise, the SECURITY ERASE UNIT command shall be aborted..

This command disables the drive lock function, however, the master password is still stored internally within the drive and may be reactivated later when a new user password is set.

10.8.40 SECURITY FREEZE LOCK (F5h)

COMMAND CODE

 

1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1

REGISTER

 

REGISTER SETTING

NORMAL COMPLETION

DR

 

DRIVE No.

no change

CY

 

 

 

no change

HD

 

 

 

no change

SN

 

 

 

no change

SC

 

 

 

no change

FT

 

 

 

no change

The SECURITY FREEZE LOCK allows the drive to enter frozen mode. After the completion of this command, any other commands that update the drive lock functions are rejected. The drive recovers from the frozen mode by power-on reset or hard reset. If SECURITY FREEZE LOCK is issued when the drive is in frozen mode, the drive executes the command and remains in frozen mode.

Following commands are rejected when the drive is in SECURITY FREEZE LOCK mode.

SECURITY SET PASSWORD

SECURITY UNLOCK

SECURITY DISABLE PASSWORD

SECURITY ERASE PREPARE

SECURITY ERASE UNIT

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