Locked out of HDD

[NoOp]

On 05/29/2011 01:01 AM, Pritam Baral wrote:
> Its not a toshiba problem. Its the bios design. All I need is a way to
> bypass the ata check at boot time when i boot from the live-iso.
> 
> Sorry, about the top-posting, as I'm currently on my mobile, and its
> either top posting or no quoting. . . . And that's too opt-out.
> 

You may be able to pass hdparm commands at the grub2 menu:
<http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20/GRUB2%20CLI%20Mode%20Commands.html#hdparm>
<http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20/GRUB2%20CLI%20Mode%20Commands.html>

I'm not familiar with those, so you'll need to google a little more to
see if you can find more information:
<http://www.google.com/search?&q=hdparm+%2Bgrub2+commands&btnG=Search>

This may (or may not) be of interest:
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/44516476/harddisk-ata-security-v1-1-1>

Best of luck.