Locked out of HDD

[Ernest Doub]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:21 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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Yank the drive - put it in a know good linux system as a second drive
- then work on it.
It sounds like you have created a Gordian's Knot of problems for
yourself and the easiest way out is to divide and conquer one
component at a time.
Good Luck
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