22 Aug
2009
22 Aug
'09
6:19 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: Old password protected laptop drive
On 22 Aug 2009 at 20:42, Teo Zenios wrote:
Ok so what you are saying is the utility I have isn't using the correct
command codes. When I did the security erase prepare it said ok, when I
tried the erase unit cammand it then asked for a password because it gave
the drive the wrong parameters.
Can you give me an example on how to use debug to sent commands (will look
those up) to the drive?
Is there a utility that does this? I tried ATA
disk password utility
v1.1 and that didnt work (still needed a password). >
According to the Hitachi docs, the command codes are unique to this
product line, so you need to issue the commands to the controller
yourself. Does Linux have a backdoor for issuing ATA commands?
You could also probably do it with DOS and DEBUG.
--Chuck