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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <[email protected]> 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 - [email protected] >> 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 - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
