Breaking in to a Harddrive

[Stephen]

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
<jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> 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..
>
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> James Finstrom
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Stephen