Breaking in to a Harddrive

[Bryan O'Neal]

The last time this happened to me I just sent the drive back to the
manufacturer under RMA and received a new drive in about a week.

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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..
>>
>> --
>> James Finstrom
>>
>>
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> Stephen
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