Originally Posted By: mlord
Either the BIOS or the operating system has "frozen" security
on the drive. Just power the drive off/on (within 5 seconds),
wait another half minute, then do the commands again.


Moved the drive from my "clone" PC to the target laptop.
Still the same errors.

Maybe this is relevant:

Code:
hdparm -I /dev/sdb

[ .... ]

Security: 
	Master password revision code = 65534
		supported
	not	enabled
	not	locked
		frozen
	not	expired: security count
		supported: enhanced erase
	2min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 2min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.


Pim