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Re:Secure erase for Samsung PM951 NVMe drive (2024) by transpute on Thursday February 05, 2026 @01:08AM (#46896273) 

  locked/frozen during boot
  until the drive has been power-cycled
There's a fixed time window for accepting secure erase, after power cycle?
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Re:Secure erase for Samsung PM951 NVMe drive (2024) by yrro on Thursday February 05, 2026 @04:09AM (#46897513)
I suppose arguably the kernel, or at least some component of the OS, should be freezing/locking drives as they come online. The firmware doing so as one-off operation during boot is a workaround for the lack of this being done by the OS.
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