I’ve been asked by a number of people about using the Seagate Momentus FDE.2 or 7200 FDE laptop drives in a Mac to do Full Disk Encryption (FDE) without having to purchase third party software. Well, I tried it out and regrettably the answer here is that the Momentus drives will not work for much the same reason that ESX can’t work with the Mac: BIOS. The Mac uses EFI, not a BIOS and therefore a number of applications that bypass various forms of hardware abstraction (and in this case hardware that bypasses it) will not work on a Mac, even if you’re using Boot Camp to run Linux or…