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June 11th, 2009, 10:49
Freshly powered-on IDE drive supporting ATA password
but no password set and not locked
and can read and write to the drive ok
MHDD shows it as Security: High, OFF
I try using PWD to set a (user) password
and I specify a password (either a short one or one padded to 32 characters)
but it comes back with Fail
What am I doing wrong ?
It used to work when I did it a few weeks ago
Same on all the drive that support ATA passwords I've tried
both with MHDD 4.5 and 4.6
Supplemental Q's
Any way to change the default Master password ?
Any way to put the drive in MAX security mode?
Thanks
I'm just experimenting out of interest
June 24th, 2009, 6:19
Doh
Looks like the drive (or rather drives) were in Frozen
Victoria (excellent program) shows as OFF, Frozen
Power cycling the drive unfreezes it
And the reason it used to work is that was when I was hot-plugging drives
Looks like the bios? on my desktop was sending Password Change Freeze to all drive at power on
(to protect it from anything malicious trying to lock you out of your drives)
Victoria also seems to allow selecting the use of MAX mode
and might also allow the changing of Master password (TBI) [only relevant to High mode of course]
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