I never came across any registers that can do special things for the hard drive like offsets. I'm sure however that there are additional registers that I don't know about, used by some drive manufacturers.
Once I was looking up password protection on IBM laptop drives. Sometimes people password protect these drives and lock themselves out with valuable data on it. I was thinking about just using brute force to guess the password, but after 3 incorrect tries, you have to reset the drive. I'm not sure how long it would take for that drive reset, or what type of reset it requires. This password is actually written on the platters in a hidden location, switching the pcb of two drives doesn't help. I never tried, I just read about it. I do wish I could get to those hidden sectors, although the password is probably encrypted as well. Matt. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en.
