[ale] Can't write to SSD

[Chris Fowler]

I've ran the secure erase 

https://tinyapps.org/docs/wipe_drives_hdparm.html 

I've even tried to wipe it. The secure erase worked because my data is no longer there and the system now boots the USB stick I'm using without interruption. 

[root at cs-loader]# tr '\000' '\377' < /dev/zero | dd bs=16384 of=/dev/sda 
dd: writing '/dev/sda': No space left on device 
4+978068 records in 
4+978067 records out 
8012390400 bytes (7.5GB) copied, 85.521886 seconds, 89.3MB/s 
[root at cs-loader]# fdisk /dev/sda 
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel 
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x9f92ee66. 
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. 
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. 

Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) 

Command (m for help): n 
Command action 
e extended 
p primary partition (1-4) 
p 
Partition number (1-4): 1 
First cylinder (1-974, default 1): 
Using default value 1 
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-974, default 974): 
Using default value 974 

Command (m for help): p 

Disk /dev/sda: 8012 MB, 8012390400 bytes 
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 974 cylinders 
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes 
Disk identifier: 0x9f92ee66 

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System 
/dev/sda1 1 974 7823623+ 83 Linux 

Command (m for help): w 
The partition table has been altered! 

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. 
Syncing disks. 
[root at cs-loader]# fdisk /dev/sda 
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel 
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xead885c9. 
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. 
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. 

Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) 

Command (m for help): 

It is not locked 

[root at cs-loader]# busybox hdparm -I /dev/sda 
..... 

Security: 
Master password revision code = 65534 
supported 
not enabled 
not locked 
not frozen 
not expired: security count 
not supported: enhanced erase 
6min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 
Checksum: correct 
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