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What does "supports DRM and may not be fully accessible" mean for SATA SDDs?


I am runing kernel 6.12.10 and in the depth of my dmesg log I found those entries kernel: ata4: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300) kernel: ata4.00: Model 'INTEL SSDSCKJF360A5L', rev '...

That way, things like video player devices that only give access to the stored data when the software has proven itself to be unmodied can be implemented. (I can find much more interesting use cases, but digital rights management seems to be what the kernel authors saw as the application for this when they implemented that warning.) That also means that Linux might simply get an "incomplete" view of the SSD, hence it warns you about that, in case you wonder.

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