On 8/18/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 18 August 2005 09:38, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > By zapping the firmware, or triggering some other magic switch, you're > > probably always able to unlock these disks. > > That does seem to be the case right now for at least one company specializing > in disk data recovery. But that approach to getting the data is expensive and > time consuming. In other words: forget about getting access to > password-protected > disk data with a screwdriver and another computer.
What about a board swap? Recently I had a drive with a cooked controller board. I put an identical controller board (same disk model, controller board revision, firmware revision, month of manufacture) on the disk can and got my data back. Before we get too worked up over this, can someone who actually cares spend an afternoon with a pair of identical disks to tell us whether or not a board swap will defeat the password (and on what sort of drive)? CL -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
