
Upon waking up, it is likely that the freeze will be lifted. Some BIOSes block the ATA Secure Erase command by issuing a "SECURITY FREEZE" command to "freeze" the drive before booting an operating system.Ī possible solution is to simply suspend the system. If it shows as just "frozen" then you cannot continue to the next step. In the security section of the output it should say "not frozen". Step 1 - Make sure the drive security is not frozen Maybe i'll confront Crucial with that info in the next days.Note: The following information has been taken from the official ATA wiki page. 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.
