ASRock BIOS and Samsung and Intel SSD Hardware encryption

[digest2]

The question to all the owners of this motherboard. Does your BIOS prompt for the password when you are waking it up from sleep (suspend to ram) mode or does system crash because of a locked hard drives it can't access?

 

[CrackerWorld]

No crash, no password is asked 😀

P.S. It's like computer is active so ssd is NOT locked when in sleep mode 😀

 

[digest2]

No crash, no password is asked 😀

P.S. It's like computer is active so ssd is NOT locked when in sleep mode 😀

Very strange. During a suspend to ram sleep (S3 mode) all the SATA HDD are off. PSU do not supply power to them. Have you connected it to SAS, SATA Express or M.2 port so it gather power directly from 5V on motherboard?

 

[LGA1150]

Al Winston, using this BIOS provided from ASRock, were you able to keep your drives in AHCI mode with HDD Password enabled?

Thanks!

 

[Solarys]

There are desktop motherboards that support the ATA password feature. I have the Asus Sabretooth z87, on a seperate build, and it supports the feature.

 

[Solarys]

Hello there,

I also have motherboard Sabertooth z87 and it doesn't have this feature. I want to ask nicely the user Palorim12 to help me by telling me where i can download that separate build bios because i need that hdd password feature to can activate encryption for my samsung 840&850 evo ssd's. Thank you in advance.

 

[Solarys]

There are desktop motherboards that support the ATA password feature. I have the Asus Sabretooth z87, on a seperate build, and it supports the feature.

hello there!

i have the same sabertooth z87 motherboard with latest bios update and i can say that doesnt have that feature. can you tell me where did you get the separate build because i wanted me too for enabling my samsung ssd encryption. Thank you

 

[Palorim12]

You would have to ask Asus if they have a custom BIOS for you.