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[bcoates]

Are there no low-level commands to access the stored cyphertext?

[wmf → bcoates]

AFAIK no. If the drive hasn't been unlocked with the proper keys it just refuses any reads/writes.

[snaky → wmf]

If that so, how could you boot from such drive?

[Stratoscope → snaky]

You have to enter the hard drive password when you boot.

On my ThinkPads, I set the power-on password and the hard drive passwords all the same. Then I enter the power-on password and it feeds that password to all the hard drives too. (I have three SSDs in my W520.)