Locked out of HDD

[Nils Kassube]

Pritam Baral wrote:
> @Nils: That could work. Thanks! But would all ATA commands go through
> a USB to SATA bridge, or would I need an eSATA to SATA bridge?

Hmm, good point. It depends on the chipset of the bridge for both SATA 
and eSATA. From [1]:

| eSATA does not suffer from these issues provided that the controller
| manufacturer (and its drivers) presents eSATA drives as ATA devices,
| rather than as "SCSI" devices (as has been common with Silicon Image,
| JMicron, and NVIDIA nForce drivers for Windows Vista); In those cases,
| even SATA drives will not have low-level features accessible. 

While this seems to be Windows specific, I would assume, that it is a 
similar problem with Linux.


Nils

[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#eSATA>