Re: harddisk suddenly locked?!

Alan Cox (alan@bagpuss.swansea.linux.org.uk)
Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:58:30 -0400 (EDT)

> A locked drive rejects all media access commands.
> When a new master password is set, the drive won't be locked.
> Setting a new user password locks the drive the next time it is powered-on.
>
> Something must have sent a lock command to my hd. Maybe a bug in the IDE
> code?

Or someone broke into the box and did it. In fact given this feature
is actually enabled on ibm disks Im amazed the windows viruses havent
all started doing it

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