get the Hitachi drive diagnostics and see if you can write 0's to the drive or contact Hitachi support or contact the seller of the drive
thats about all i can think of, because firmware level passwords are pretty hard to circumvent. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:51 AM, James Finstrom <jfinst...@rhinoequipment.com> wrote: > Greetings All, > So my dad bought a Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 and apparently the drive is > password locked at a hardware level and requires some sort of voodoo to > report back anything other than vendor data. Anyway I guess there is a byte > code you send to the drive and then a password then you live happily ever > after. Needless to say we don't have the password. I am sure there is data > on the drive but none that we own so don't care if all data is lost. Looking > for suggestions on breaking in or clearing the drive. Again total data loss > is ok. Tried DD in case it was in the partition table and no dice.. > > -- > James Finstrom > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
