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Which Z68 motherboards have ATA HD password options in bios?

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vrxtd

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The Intel 320 SSD has a type of full disk encryption when setting the ATA HD Password in bios.

http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/325201.pdf

I was wondering which Z68 motherboards still had the "ATA HD Password" option?

I looked through screenshots of the ASUS Z68 bios and it didn't show this option (only a general bios password). A google search indicated that the ASRock motherboard doesn't have the option either.

I get the impression that motherboards with UEFI bios don't have it anymore. Is it true?
 
vrxtd said:
Do you know a specific ATX make/model that definitely has ATA password support?
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Sorry but I can't recall. I've seen one retail Intel board that supported ATA password, it was an older LGA775 generation (probably two years ago). The other boards I've seen were OEM boards in DELL or HP systems. I've also seen some add-in controller cards (e.g. SATA, PATA, RAID) that supported ATA password in their option ROM. Sorry I can't be of more help.
 
VirtualLarry said:
which is totally lame. One might suspect a conspiracy by the TLAs to prevent ordinary users from securing their data.
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Well it might be part of the relevant ATA security specification that TPM is required or strongly recommended (I don't know one way or the other). IOW, this feature might depend on TPM.
 
tcsenter said:
Well it might be part of the relevant ATA security specification that TPM is required or strongly recommended (I don't know one way or the other). IOW, this feature might depend on TPM.
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No, that's not it. ATA password support was around way before TPM, and which would you rather have, a password stored in your own brain, or a password stored in a TPM, of unknown security?
 
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