Hi there

I recently took over the workshop stock of a small IT company
in the stock was a bunch of 2.5" drives
various makes and models

Problem is:
The techie they had was testing the drives in a dell laptop that went and added ata passwords to all of them.

The fujitsu drives I have managed to write a program the will disable the ata passwords but I am stuck on the toshiba, WD, IBM and hitachi drives

is disabling the passwords on these others drives similar to the fuj..(replacing the SA module)
if so where can I get software for messing with the modules on the other drives

I realise the tools will be limited to certain makes and models but I will to take the chance as I have about 50-60 drives here.

Thanx alot
Tony

Pc3000 or Salvation (cheaper)

Or maby if you don't want to buy any of those, there might be any pro's in the forum that might help you out for a smaller fee...were are you located?

Regards/ Bosse

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Yes, for reworking of a single lot maybe outsourcing is the word!

OK to start I am located in South Africa

I am interested in getting a PC3000 (and probably will sooner than later)

to Spildit
Yes I am using the vendor specific ata commands
and yes quite similar to what you have posted except mine runes from an assembler/pascal coded program

I have run a few tests and on the drive I have it does not seem to be saving the passwords in plain text, I could just be missing it but I have not seen it.

I am assuming the were all locked on the same laptop(could be a really bad assumption on my part too)
I have not had much luck with the forum search, do you know of anywhere on the forum that might have vendor specific codes for other makes? also I am keen on getting info on SA modules for other drives

I can outsource this but I would prefer to do it inhouse. I have built a customized PC in which I have written all the software from the OS up to do data recovery on drives that are not physically damaged I have implemented various filesystems(fat,ntfs,ext2/3, reiser, cd+dvd etc..) written my own cd/dvd writeer libraries for storing data on dvd's when recovered etc.. I am trying to expand this system to include more advanced features (started with Fuji)
If I can get this app to anything semi decent I would like to release a DOS version (for use on Hiren bootcd or simialr) for the community to use should they have a need for it.
I know at the moment it's really weak and simple but that is what I am aiming to improve.