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I was wondering, if I have a Sata hdd is put in usb3.0 external enclosure. Can I use smartmontools to disable the tler on the drive? If yes, I know the commandline to disable tler when the sata-disk is attached internally in normal desktop. But do I need extra commandline commands if the disk is in usb3.0 enclosure to disable tler? If yes what would commandline look like?

Evergreen

Hi,

this Seagate Barracuda 2,5" HDD isn't in the database.

The following is not me, but it's fairly similar: ​https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=178554

scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=xx offset=yy bd_len=zz

Well after I got this message when trying to do a smartctl long test, I thought my drive was faulty as this guy's one was, but it was 100% OK.

The actual reason for the "error" was almost to be called hilarious: my drive was security locked! This happened after using security erase (enhanced) via hdparm:

# hdparm --user-master u --security-set-pass /dev/sdc blahdiblah # hdparm --user-master u --security-erase enhanced /dev/sdc blahdiblah

It may be a bug in hdparm that it doesn't always release the lock as soon as it has finished erasing.

Anyways, that "faulty" drive was actually a great drive, and after doing a DISPWD on it via MHDD, it gave me a PERFECT rating on HDD Sentinel.

tl;dr ?

What this enhancement request is about:

• Do not operate on drives that are security locked by password (makes less sense), instead:
• Inform the user THAT their drive is security locked and write out something like "Can't operate on this drive - unlock it first" so that the user knows what they're up to.
• Do not lead the user down the garden path by telling them about a responselength being too short, making them think it's their drive which is at (hardware) fault.