{"id":2054,"date":"2011-09-25T20:49:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T17:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2011-09-26T18:10:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T15:10:55","slug":"atasx-on-an-asus-m4a78-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/2011\/09\/25\/atasx-on-an-asus-m4a78-em\/","title":{"rendered":"ATASX on an Asus M4A78-EM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking of getting an SSD with built-in encryption, such as the Kingston SSDNow V+ 100E Series. From what I gather, utilizing the encryption would require that the BIOS supports HDD passwords. This is what lead me to ATASX.<\/p>\n<p>My current motherboard is an Asus M4A78-EM with the latest available AMIBIOS for it, revision 2101.<\/p>\n<p>For all appearances, I&#8217;ve successfully configured the ATASX.ROM module for my setup, managed to embed it into the main BIOS ROM using mmtool, replacing the existing PCI ethernet module (10EC:8168) with it and flashed the resulting ROM file into my BIOS chip.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, during the boot, there&#8217;s no indication that the extension is in fact there: the prompt for security setup doesn&#8217;t appear and, when listing the harddisks, POST doesn&#8217;t say anything about the security extension as it does in the example images.<\/p>\n<p>Did I read the documentation wrong when I thought this method didn&#8217;t involve burning an EEPROM? Have I made some error in the process, or is it just that the AMIBIOS for this motherboard somehow isn&#8217;t compatible with ATASX?<\/p>\n<p>And in the end, would even having support for ATA security enable me to utilize the built-in encryption on modern SSDs? I only came to think of this when I read in another thread there&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzenreiter.de\/phpBB2\/viewtopic.php?t=171\" target=\"_blank\">a user with an SSD for whom ATASX<\/a>\u00a0apparently doesn&#8217;t work (if I&#8217;m reading the Google translation right).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have I made some error in the process, or is it just that the Asus M4A78-EM AMIBIOS somehow isn&#8217;t compatible with ATASX?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1097],"tags":[11955],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keskustelupalstat","tag-asus","sijainti-arnes-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}