On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:22:18PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > I wish it was that simple. The hard drive is locked, has a password. > Someone locked it. Welcome to the new 'security'. Yes, drives can be locked, and at this point it's vendor-specific. The locking is in the drive firmware; talk to the manufacturer. If you're lucky, they have a utility (probably Windows based (frownyifIdidfrownyswhichIdon't). If not, it's good for skipping over a pond. Worse, there's a new "standard" being proposed for such drive locking--which doesn't specify overrides or resets. I'm going to hate this cr*p when clients come up and ask how to recover their data, because they forgot their hard disk password... -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
