Travelstar hitachi or ibm HTS5480xx password

[Zork]

Hi, I have a hitachi hts548060m9at00, which has password enabled, and for weeks I'm working to bypass this password.

I found that the PC3k pci board can bypass this, and I don't have one.

By the way, this guy did: http://www.costcofeedback.com/showthread.php?p=6414

Looking on the PCB of the hard disk, and thinking about the method of unlock show on this link, I suppose that the key to remove the password is rewrite the eeprom 93L56 on the PCB.

If anyone have read this eeprom please send me an email or post the file..

I have checked where the two PC3k points on that the probes are connected, they don't are the eeprom data and clock ones, but are going to the ic that controls the head and the other biggest one, I will post some data from my logic analyzer to discover what is passing on these lines, later..

Sorry about my poor english.

Thanks!

Arao H. Filho

ahf2009@gmail.com / eletronicaecia@gmail.com

[pcimage]

The password is on the drive itself, not the PCB.

[Starling]

Described procedure won't work on this drive.

[Zork]

Users pcimage and Starling, what procedure will work with this drive (except pc3k PCI)?

[mr_spokk]

Hi,
If your data on the drive is importent then you can use this: http://hdd-tools.com/products/rrs/
If it's not you can use this: http://www.allservice.ro/forum/viewtopic.php?t=104

Rgs/ Bosse

[pcimage]

hdd-tools.com (aka AFF Repair Station) will not work on this drive, Hitachi drives nearly always require probe points, or at least NVRAM manipulation.

I don't know about UDMA but PCI 2.27 does not even have support for this series.

There are NO free tools to unlock these drives.