Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2009-03-06 at 15:49 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I don't know the Seagate Master Password, but you may be able to get it. All you can do with it is wipe the drive and unlock it for future use. So with some work you may be able to save yourself $100 or whatever the drive is worth.
I believe the master password is set by the owner of the disk, not the manufacturer. Unless the manufacturer sets a default one :-?
I wonder where the password is kept? On the disk media? Or in flash rom somewhere on the controller board?
I tried swapping the board with an identical one from a mechanically failed disk and still got the password locked error so it must be on the media.
I've had success in swapping the controller boards on Seagate Barracuda SCSI disks in the past. The boards are easily swappable without soldering or cutting wires. If the data is really important I'd purchase a new disk (exactly the same manufacturer and disk model number) and see if a controller swap would work.
Don't blame me if you break something!!!
Regards, Lew
I don't need the data, I need the drive blank. I don't think much of seagate if there isn't a way to reset the drive that would mean that in the case where something goes wrong password wise you have to buy a new drive. Carlos's comment about his friend managing to complete the security erase has given me new hope, I will play with hdparm a bit when I have more time and share what I learn. Thanks all Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org