Hello,
I have two Seagate SAS SED drives that I purchased off ebay that are locked. I already received unlocked replacements and I was told to keep this or trash them but from all the research that I did, like secure erase, I thought I read that I could unlock these drives using the OEM key/password on the drive and that I would just loose everything stored on the drive.
This is obviously what I want but I cannot find a combination of software and hardware to make this work.
I can get the drive to detect in seagate utils in windows, but entering the password on the drive, does not unlock it.
I have tried a multitude of Linux utils and seagate boot disks and no matter how I pushed the password, nothing would happen. I did do this about a year ago.
I would like to try again and I know that they make software and hardware that interfaces with these drives but can anyone relay any successful experiences to me about this?
I have two Seagate SAS SED drives that I purchased off ebay that are locked. I already received unlocked replacements and I was told to keep this or trash them but from all the research that I did, like secure erase, I thought I read that I could unlock these drives using the OEM key/password on the drive and that I would just loose everything stored on the drive.
This is obviously what I want but I cannot find a combination of software and hardware to make this work.
I can get the drive to detect in seagate utils in windows, but entering the password on the drive, does not unlock it.
I have tried a multitude of Linux utils and seagate boot disks and no matter how I pushed the password, nothing would happen. I did do this about a year ago.
I would like to try again and I know that they make software and hardware that interfaces with these drives but can anyone relay any successful experiences to me about this?