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Cannot securely erase SATA SDD volumes when connected to Marvel RAID

Use this information to troubleshoot issues when secure erase fails on SATA SDDs with volumes when connected to Marvell RAID controllers.

You cannot securely erase SATA SDD volumes that are connected to Marvell RAID controllers. Instead, consider the following recommendations.

  • For 7mm SATA SSDs, connect to Broadcom RAID controllers to perform secure erase.

  • For M.2 SATA SSDs, connect to Marvell non-RAID controllers (such as ThinkSystem M.2 SATA/NVMe 2-Bay Enablement Kit) to perform secure erase.

There is an internal timeout (9 seconds) in the Marvell RAID firmware. If the SSD does not respond to the command in time (does not finish the erase), the Marvell RAID firmware resets the SDD, the SDD becomes locked, and the secure erase fails. To unlock the SDD, run the following command.

hdparm --user-master u --security-unlock user123 %diskName%