Plextor m5p: Enabling AES encryption?

I just received my new m5p and I am trying to enabled the 256 AES encryption on it. I cannot find information on how to do it on Plextor's site. The PlexTools utility only displays ssd health information. I am running Windows 7 Pro x64. Does anyone know how to enable the encryption throught the ssd controller?

I suppose you have to enable the hard disk password in the bios.
the entered password will then (automatically) be used to decrypt some generated badass aes-256 encryption key and use this to encrypt/decrypt all your data.

there is just one problem, i dont know a non-notebook mainboard that let's you set the hdd-password. currently only notebooks (few exceptions?) seem to support this...

perhaps there is some software bootloader-like solution that unlocks the hdd without explicit BIOS ATA Password support?

http://info.softexinc.com/bid/56163...l-Hard-Drives-with-ATA-BIOS-Password-Security

someone please try this without blowing his bios
http://www.fitzenreiter.de/ata/ata_eng.htm

hotzen said:

someone please try this without blowing his bios
http://www.fitzenreiter.de/ata/ata_eng.htm

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Will that work on a UEFI bios?

I have no idea but would think that this OptionROM-mechanism should work even under UEFI.