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Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

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On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:08:04 +0500
"Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27.04.2022 16:06, Tom Browder wrote:
> > I am trying to replace the original hard drive on an old Toshiba 
> > laptop with a 1 TB SSD from Crucial. (I had recently successfully done 
> > that in an old Dell Latitude and had no problems.)
> >
> > I first did a clean install of Debian 11 on the old drive to ensure 
> > the laptop works okay. Then I installed the new SSD and it can't find 
> > the drive. From what I can find at Crucial, I need to install their 
> > Storage Executive program on a Windows host, look up the SSD to a 
> > USB/SATA connector on that host, and configure or install the firmware 
> > onto the SSD.
> >
> I've never heard anything like that and I've worked with many 
> consumer-grade SSDs.
> Usually all SSDs "just work". They may come pre-partitioned and 
> pre-formatted, but this could be reconfigured with any standard utility 
> programs.
> The only thing I can think of, is that it could require usage of some 
> vendor-specific proprietary software to setup hardware encryption and/or
> to update currently flashed firmware to newer versions.

There's OPAL. Presumably uncommon on consumer-grade drives, but it does
require special software to configure (although not necessarily vendor
specific software) and can be a pain to work with (at least if one isn't
familiar with them, as I wasn't when I encountered it in the wild, in a
second-hand machine ;))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Storage_Specification
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Self-encrypting_drives

-- 
Celejar

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Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 13:10 +0200
  Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-04-27 13:50 +0200
    Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 14:00 +0200
      Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-04-27 14:30 +0200
        Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-04-27 14:40 +0200
          Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 14:50 +0200
            Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-04-27 15:40 +0200
            Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-27 15:40 +0200
          Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-04-27 15:50 +0200
      Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-04-27 17:10 +0200
      Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-05-05 00:30 +0200
  Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 14:10 +0200
    Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 14:20 +0200
      Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 15:30 +0200
      Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2022-04-27 15:50 +0200
        Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 16:20 +0200
    Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-04-27 15:40 +0200
    Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 00:10 +0200
  Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 17:20 +0200
    Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 17:40 +0200
      Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-04-27 18:50 +0200
      Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 19:20 +0200
        Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-04-27 21:20 +0200
          Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-04-28 19:10 +0200
            Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-05-05 14:30 +0200
          [SOLVED] Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 00:30 +0200
        Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-05-05 00:30 +0200

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