Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:41:17 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: kpneal@pobox.com Cc: "Brandon J. Wandersee" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>, "FreeBSD Users" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hard drive problem Message-ID: <46363.128.135.70.2.1435160477.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20150624153643.GB43640@neutralgood.org> References: <5589E2F9.3070604@gmail.com> <861th1tdj3.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <20150624153643.GB43640@neutralgood.org>
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On Wed, June 24, 2015 10:36 am, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 08:57:20AM -0500, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: >> >> jd1008 writes: >> >> > does anyone have a way to unlock the master pword in >> > a recent WD 2TB 2.5" drive? >> >> "Master pword?" Is this a firmware-level encrypted drive? If so, no. A >> "reset" feature would defeat the purpose of having encryption in the >> first place. If the drive is self-encrypting you don't know the >> password, the drive's a brick. > > My guess is that you can tell the drive to use a new password, but the > contents of the drive are lost. That's assuming a firmware-level > encryption. > > BTW, are there really 2TB _2.5"_ drives on the market? It may be an enclosure with two 1TB 2.5" drives either concatenated, or RAID0 thus presenting itself as 2 TB. Just a wild guess. Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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