On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:00:07PM +0200, Thomas Tanner wrote:
> I can't access the data on my harddrive any longer ;-((
>
> The IBM Disk Fitness Test tool tells me:
> Model : IBM-DJNA-372200
> Microcode level : J71OA30K
> ATA Compliance : ATA-4
> Security feature : Supported
> Password : Set
> Password level : High
> Security mode : Locked
>
> However, I haven't set any password. I don't even know how to set it!!
> My system is (was) Linux 2.4.7 with PIIX support and "SCSI over IDE"
> enabled,
> I wanted to start XWindows (4.01). However, it switched the video mode and
> suddenly locked up for ~10 sec. I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Backspace/Del
> After some seconds it responded and seemed to shut down as usual.
> Since then the hd is locked and I don't know why.
Better shield your monitor?
> According to the ATA-3 specification
ATA-4 is also online.
> To unlock a drive one has to send the command SECURITY UNLOCK (0xBB)
> and transfer a single sector to the drive:
Maybe someone has already done it. Otherwise you'll have to play a little
with the code. It is easy. You could try to take setmax and hdparm as example
and add an ioctl that combines HDIO_DRIVE_TASK and HDIO_DRIVE_CMD.
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