On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:22:18PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> I wish it was that simple. The hard drive is locked, has a password.
> Someone locked it.
Welcome to the new 'security'. Yes, drives can be locked, and at this
point it's vendor-specific. The locking is in the drive firmware; talk
to the manufacturer. If you're lucky, they have a utility (probably
Windows based (frownyifIdidfrownyswhichIdon't). If not, it's good for
skipping over a pond.
Worse, there's a new "standard" being proposed for such drive
locking--which doesn't specify overrides or resets. I'm going to hate
this cr*p when clients come up and ask how to recover their data,
because they forgot their hard disk password...
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Dave Ihnat
President, DMINET Consulting, Inc.
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