
It is also sometimes called a solid-state device or a solid-state disk, even though SSDs lack the physical spinning disks and movable read–write heads used in hard disk drives (HDDs) and floppy disks.

Maybe i'll confront Crucial with that info in the next days.An mSATA SSD with the label removed to show the chipset and NAND.Ī solid-state drive ( SSD) is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently, typically using flash memory, and functioning as secondary storage in the hierarchy of computer storage. In his case – they assume – there are controller-problems. I've found this thread today where someone has the exact same problem. I’m a little bit desperate right here, hope you can help. Maybe that led to the locked-state? I don’t know. I solved that by putting the system in Sleep Mode.

Maybe important to know: Before that my drive has been frozen. Hdparm –user-master u –security-erase PASS /dev/sdaīut it said the following with some and some more 00’s) at the end: Bad/missing sense data, sb: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 51 e0 00 21 04 … I've booted from a Knoppix Live CD and used the command: hdparm -user-master u -security-set-pass PASS /dev/sdaĪfter that I wanted to actually secure erase it with: Or maybe someone knows another solution that could unlock my SSD.īackground: I wanted to secure erase my SSD drive. I want to use the command: hdparm -user-master m -security-unlock PASS /dev/sda

Does someone know the ATA master password for Crucial drives? Unfortunately I haven’t found the master ATA password for Crucial drives on the internet. So I’ve searched all over google, and read in a thread that I should try to unlock it with the master password. I can’t unlock it with the correct (!) user password.
