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ddd123
 Post subject: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 20th, 2015, 10:57 
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Hello

Can anybody remotely help or advice how to get to the SA on WD Firebird family?
SA is not accessible or encrypted.

we need to disable Auto-relocation

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Sasha Sheremetov
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 21st, 2015, 7:37 
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Hi,

As far as I remember Igor (my colleague) found a solution for FW lock problem for most of WD/HGST drives.
Drop PM or send request to igor@d3consultyou.com.

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ROb
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 23rd, 2015, 6:34 
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I have a similar situation.
Have a FW locked HDD and want to REGENERATE Translator.
Any help is appreciated.
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northwind
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 23rd, 2015, 13:11 
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These drives have factory locked SA access.
Therefore you can't perform any SA related actions like clearing Relo or Regen translator etc.

There is, however, a way to gain SA access and decrypt on-the-fly.

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ROb
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 25th, 2015, 0:09 
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Tried SA Region editing and then to get the SA access but no luck with that as well
Any pointers / suggestions ??
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ROb
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 25th, 2015, 5:16 
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With SA Region Editing i could get access to SA and was able to save all the Modules as well.
All modules are OKAY except for Relo.
Moment i load the Loader it locks the SA and w/o loader i am not able to edit any Mods to CLEAR Relo.
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Moltke
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 26th, 2015, 14:37 
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ROb
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Moment i load the Loader it locks the SA and w/o loader i am not able to edit any Mods to CLEAR Relo.

You could not put the resources from this disk on file sharing?Thank you.
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ROb
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 27th, 2015, 7:06 
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I have uploaded them here

http://files.hddguru.com/index.php?acti ... bble%20LT&
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digisupport
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 27th, 2015, 7:40 
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Do you get 0x4F10 at init ?
Then maybe the solution in ace`s knowledgebase is working.

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ROb
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 28th, 2015, 1:33 
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Do you get 0x4F10 at init ?
Then maybe the solution in ace`s knowledgebase is working.


Yes it gives 0x4F10 at init in ver 5.8 and in UDMA 5.9 it says "SED DRIVE LOCKED"
If i am not mistaken ACE Knowledge base does not have a solution to it yet.
If i have missed it would be glad if someone points it out.
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einstein9
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 28th, 2015, 3:49 
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ROb wrote:
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Do you get 0x4F10 at init ?
Then maybe the solution in ace`s knowledgebase is working.


Yes it gives 0x4F10 at init in ver 5.8 and in UDMA 5.9 it says "SED DRIVE LOCKED"
If i am not mistaken ACE Knowledge base does not have a solution to it yet.
If i have missed it would be glad if someone points it out.
Thanks


they do, working on HOWTO add it
and there are ways not one.

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TerraNova
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 28th, 2015, 4:12 
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Not just firebird, have seen "some" FBlite as well. Unable to check SA.
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ROb
 Post subject: Re: WD firebird family 'encrypted firmware'
PostPosted: February 28th, 2015, 8:02 
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Quote:
and there are ways not one.


Right.
Faulty heads were the reason for Relo not getting cleared.
Head Replaced resolved.
Thanks all for Support.
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