If you forget you password, you cannot even wipe out your hard drive and use it "from scratch"? In summary, I don't know. I don't see why the you can't start from scratch. Detailed and practical technical documentation is sketchy (or was; I haven't checked lately). Apparently (although I am skeptical) there is no 'back door' to the encryption hardware on the drive so even the manufacturer cannot 'retrieve' your
On Saturday March 8 2008 12:05:33 Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote: password. Now so far as starting from scratch goes, at one point, I read that you required old password to reset the password thereby rendering data on the drive useless to anyone (avoids the need for disposing of old drives) otherwise, without this password, the drive is effectively destroyed and should be sent to the manufacturer for replacement. However, this seems inconsistent with IBM documentation that suggests you can simply reset the password to wipe the drive. I should review this documentation. If I find out more I'll post it it. If you do, please tell me. I don't really want to experiment on my own drive. To be safe, one should write the password down somewhere so long as it's not attached to the machine. Rick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org