-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2009-03-07 at 08:51 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
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.
Makes sense... why would they use flash, when they have tons of on disk storage space available? But it is a pity. Well, not so much a pity... imagine you protect a disk, and it is stolen: you'd wish the bad guys couldn't ever read it, or at least, not that easy.
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.
You could write to them and ask? :-?
Carlos's comment about his friend managing to complete the security erase has given me new hope,
But that was because the program he used had saved the password when interrupted.
I will play with hdparm a bit when I have more time and share what I learn.
Tell us what you manage. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmyWDkACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U1lgCfcp7GDx6DySpJvVqVcOCh3tja K8AAnAtOXjm0srDQ56yPu+eKYx1H9hjG =9Dhf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org