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| Author: | xsoliman [ June 11th, 2009, 10:49 ] |
| Post subject: | MHDD not letting me set ATA password |
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 |
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| Author: | xsoliman [ June 24th, 2009, 6:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: MHDD not letting me set ATA password |
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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