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

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I am running 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 'LT2i', applying quirks: zeroaftertrim
kernel: ata4.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0(SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
kernel: ata4.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible
kernel: ata4.00: ATA-10: INTEL SSDSCKJF360A5L, LT2i, max UDMA/133
kernel: ata4.00: 703282608 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 32), AA
kernel: ata4.00: Features: Trust Dev-Sleep
kernel: ata4.00: ACPI cmd f5/00:00:00:00:00:a0(SECURITY FREEZE LOCK) filtered out
kernel: ata4.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible
kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
kernel: scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      INTEL SSDSCKJF36 LT2i PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] 703282608 512-byte logical blocks: (360 GB/335 GiB)
kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Preferred minimum I/O size 512 bytes
kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6
kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
What do the following messages mean? * supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible * read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA What does DRM stand for in this context? (I doubt it means digital rights management.) Are those messages related? These messages seem to be new. I cannot remember to have seen them previously. But I don't know since which kernel version they have started to appear.
Asked by user2690527 (412 rep)
Jan 19, 2025, 04:45 PM
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