hdparm is 2 years old and uses old depricated IDE API for ATA Security commands

[Dmitry Kasatkin]

Hello,

hdparm is 2 years old on Ubuntu 12.10: 9.37-0ubuntu4
It uses old depricated IDE API for ATA Security security which is not evailable anymore in latest Ubuntu kernels.

Following commands does not work:

hdparm --security-set-pass
hdparm --security-unlock
hdparm --security-disable

For example:
hdparm --security-disable xxx /dev/sdb
----------
security_password="xxx"

/dev/sdb:
 Issuing SECURITY_DISABLE command, password="xxx", user=user

The running kernel lacks CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL support for this device.
SECURITY_UNLOCK: Invalid argument
---------------

Please update the package from latest source
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hdparm/files/hdparm/

- Dmitry

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Raring Ringtail.

This is a significant bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

[Luciano Mougenot (luciano-mougenot)]

I'm getting this same error, under the same attempted pwd removal command with the hdparm bundled with 14.04 Ubuntu. Then also with the latest (9/2015 v 4.98 version from sourceforge.net).

Did the bug come back or was it never really verified to be fixed?

Off-topic:
I'm following my SSD MFG's recommendation for recovery of a SSD that they returned with no-fault found, by performing a security-erase. What's strange, and from what I've read elsewhere, is that the security information printed by hdparm -I /dev/device_node returns that it'll only take "2 minutes" for the erase. Which from what I've read means that its not implemented.

[Eduardo Aquiles Radanovitsck (eduardoaquiles-ar)]

Just tried to run
hdparm --security-erase
on ubuntu 16.04 lts and got the same message:

Issuing SECURITY_ERASE command, password="...", user=user
The running kernel lacks CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL support for this device.
SECURITY_ERASE: Invalid argument
Command exited with non-zero status 22

[Rodolfo (rodrom2)]

Hello,
I've got the same error:
<
/dev/sda:
 Issuing SECURITY_UNLOCK command, password="xxxxxxxxx", user=master
The running kernel lacks CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL support for this device.
SECURITY_UNLOCK: Invalid argument
>

Command exited with non-zero status 22

I'm using:
<
 - hdparm v9.43
 - Linux mylinuxsrv 4.9.35-v7+ #1014 SMP Fri Jun 30 14:47:43 BST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux
 - PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
>

Does anybody solved this issue?
Thank you

[Mark (parity3)]

Are there instructions on supporting CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL for 16.04 LTS?

Same thing happens for hdparm v9.48

SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: f0 00 01 00 50 40 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 1d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
The running kernel lacks CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL support for this device.
SECURITY_ERASE: Invalid argument