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Password Locked Seagate Exos / Ironwolf

January 7th, 2026, 7:00

Occasionally, we receive drives back from customers that are password-protected using an ATA password.

Most drives were password-protected during deletion on Synology systems. Removing the password in these cases is straightforward.

However, I have some drives with passwords that are unknown.

I can easily reset SED drives using SeaChest and the `revertSP` command if the password is unknown.

This command doesn't work for non-SED drives, though.

I've tried several commands using SeaChest_Erase (`--revert`, `--revertSP`, `--ataSecureErase`, `--performQuickestErase`) specifying the PSID, but I get an error message every time.

Perhaps I'm simply making a mistake and entering the wrong command.

Is there any way to remove the password from these drives?
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Re: Password Locked Seagate Exos / Ironwolf

January 11th, 2026, 11:06

I guess sinology NAS boxes used disk passwords as the firmware lacked ext4 security
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