Alan Dayley wrote:
If the hardware manufacturer implemented the ATA spec correctly, the
password cannot be bypassed by any normal means. That is, after all,
what the password is supposed to do.
With special knowledge of the specific hard drive model, not just the
manufacturer, the model and
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
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
The last time this happened to me I just sent the drive back to the
manufacturer under RMA and received a new drive in about a week.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote:
get the Hitachi drive diagnostics and see if you can write 0's to the
drive or contact
A warning: in my experience and that of others of late, Hitachi drives
aren't that good. Worse than Samsung. Nowhere near as good as WD or
Seagate. I wouldn't trust a Hitachi for anything really important.
Jim
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Ah remember we used to call them the death star drive - because they
would burn out hot and fast :)
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote:
A warning: in my experience and that of others of late, Hitachi drives
aren't that good. Worse than Samsung. Nowhere
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Bryan O'Neal
bryan.on...@theonealandassociates.com wrote:
Ah remember we used to call them the death star drive - because they
would burn out hot and fast :)
We're at a point now where brand new WD drives of respectable but not
cutting-edge size are so damn
Ah remember we used to call them the death star drive - because they
would burn out hat and fast :)
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote:
A warning: in my experience and that of others of late, Hitachi drives
aren't that good. Worse than Samsung. Nowhere
If the hardware manufacturer implemented the ATA spec correctly, the
password cannot be bypassed by any normal means. That is, after all,
what the password is supposed to do.
With special knowledge of the specific hard drive model, not just the
manufacturer, the model and even the specific
