rallee2{at}comcast.net wrote:

>Hello
>  Doesn't low level formatting assume a scsi drive?  Most IDE drives
are no longer user formattable AFAIK.  Also, why would anyone password
protect a hard drive?  Here I am assuming they mean in firmware which also
should be unaffected by a low level format.  I can't help but wonder if the
person assuming the hard drive is password protected actually means his
bios is password protected since I can imagine little value in password
protercting the firmware.  Also, it seems common for people to refer to
their encased system as "the cpu" or "the hard drive"
as a generic term since they don't really understand the concept of a
motherboard or the entire system as a whole.
>Jimmy
>

Hi Jim,

I sent the other Jim ["inkleput"] the following URL:

http://www.rockbox.org/lock.html

The reason that some people password-protect the drive in firmware is to 
stop the possibly-commercially-valuable or highly personal contents 
being readable [supposedly!] if the drive is e.g. stolen!

Disks - either IDE or SCSI aren't user-low-level-formattable.  Because 
of zone-bit recording this is a factory-only option. the SCSI-LLF from 
the HBA-BIOS is only a long "refresh" of the media.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

Failed the exam for
--------------------
MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert
--------------------
[Please ZIP any attachments, other than GIF/JPG or plain-text]



 
Yahoo! Groups Links

 To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/os2hardware/

 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    os2hardware-unsubscribe{at}yahoogroups.com

 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 



---