ATA security extensions for UEFI boards / UHCI support in ATASX

Discussion in 'BIOS Mods' started by alex999, Jan 4, 2013.

  1. alex999

    alex999 MDL Novice

    Jan 2, 2013
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    Hello!

    I've been playing with Arne Fitzenreiter's ATASX mod for a while - managed to make it run from a flashed PCI-E ethernet card.

    However, it turns out that it doesn't support UHCI, which is a shame - there's an unpleasant performance hit from picking IDE mode (well, for SDDs anyway ;) )

    Unfortunately, I lack skills needed to add UHCI support to ATASX and/or making a brand new UEFI mod which would support that.

    So, basically, I'm just throwing this idea out so that, mayhaps, someone more skilled will become interested and will create a way to enable ATA security extensions without sacrificing UHCI support... With increasing number of decent self-encrypting SDDs becoming available, it could be definitely useful.