An Old Conner HD

[619beave]

We have an old Conner HD and it has been Password locked. Anyone have any ideas on how to remove the password so we can access it.

We have not seen a Conner drive in years. It brings back memories. But, never seen one password locked.

Regards,

[rameez]

havent seen password on these drives also i would check pcb if were you .

[guru]

It's (probably) one of the cheap Conner/Seagate transition drives. Like an ST31276A. Which case it does have a diag terminal

http://www.techbit.cz/files/obrazky/muz ... 76A_01.jpg

[619beave]

No it does not it is a CF210A using a diagnostic program it says it's password protected. I will look for a PCBA for the drive.

Thanks

[BlackST]

Don't think it's the PCB (very small chances, but it's worth a try). In any case if it is a CFS series I can do something (but have to send the drive).

[guru]

I have never seen a CFS210A locked by a password before. Only 2.5" Conners.

Do you want the data or just unlock+erase the drive?

[619beave]

Let me try a PCB.

[DrFaustus]

did it even support ATA password as per specification?, maybe is a disk encryption type ?

[619beave]

It was not locked. It's an older drive that works on the CHS addressing not LBA. So all my tools were telling me it was locked. I figured this out as I got a duplicate working drive hooked up and it said the same thing.

Drive has been cloned to a file and data has been recovered.

[DrFaustus]

Excellent , good job

[PeskyBit]

Reviving a really old thread.....

Received one of these in for recovery (a CP3204F) which does identify, but with 0 capacity and password protected (high). Not sure if changing a PCB on this old boy would help or not. Any advice?

[PeskyBit]

Ended up using Linux and copied everything 100%.