maximus wrote:
I just did some testing and the first thing I can say is you are likely using an Ubuntu version above 16.04. Linux broke something in the ATA passthough after kernel version 4.4. That is why you get the 'SG_IO: bad/missing sense data'. It should be an IO error instead. Not that it will solve your problem, but try with an older version of the live CD.
(Side Note: at least I know my software is not the only thing affected by this change in the Linux kernel).
So the result you are seeing means there was an error with the command, the same kind of error that can be from a wrong password. Adding the option --verbose to the command could produce some possible helpful information to a few of us on here (with the older Ubuntu version). But if you don't have the password correct, or something bad happened that changed the condition of the drive, then you may be out of luck for any easy solution.
I was using 18.04, but I just tried --security-unlock and other --security-* commands as the user account (with the password I set) and as the master account with the default passwords for HGST and WDC on 16.04.
I still get a "SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 ..." with 16.04, are you saying the version needs 14.04?
I can try Victoria For Windows, but I don't know how this is supposed to be run. I'd like to be able to run it from a live USB drive, but I'm not sure how to do that, or what Windows version it requires.