[COLUG] Is the drive dead or not?

[Brett Stauffer]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:23 -0500, Mike Schoenborn wrote:

> This link has a pointer to a locking/unlocking utility with C source:
> 
> http://archive.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=148629
> 
> Additional discussion on the topic can be found in alt.video.ptv.tivo, or
> Googling on "qunlock" (a prececessor to the utility above).

I'm not sure about the new utility, but do not run "qunlock" on a drive
unless you're sure you need to.  A friend of mine ran it on a
non-Quantam drive, and the drive was trashed.


--brett