ATA Passwords

[omnieus]

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

[BlackST]

Pc3000 or Salvation (cheaper)

[mr_spokk]

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

[BlackST]

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

[omnieus]

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.