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"ATA Device Configuration Overlay"
From what I have gathered, it's feature common in sata drives these days which allows a drive to hide its actual configuration and present another to the OS. I think this helps features like secure partitions, restore partitions, etc.
Can anyone explain to me more fully what this does and how it works?
What I'm after here is whether it can be used by a knowledgable end-user to more securely isolate different partitions from another for multi-booting. There's more difficult ways to do this, like using different physical drives with swap trays or combox/trios devices, or even storage virtualization. But if this can be done easily in via some utility with one drive, that would really be useful.
From what I have gathered, it's feature common in sata drives these days which allows a drive to hide its actual configuration and present another to the OS. I think this helps features like secure partitions, restore partitions, etc.
Can anyone explain to me more fully what this does and how it works?
What I'm after here is whether it can be used by a knowledgable end-user to more securely isolate different partitions from another for multi-booting. There's more difficult ways to do this, like using different physical drives with swap trays or combox/trios devices, or even storage virtualization. But if this can be done easily in via some utility with one drive, that would really be useful.