[COLUG] Is the drive dead or not?

[Tom Hanlon]

On 11 Dec 2006, at 13:36, Brett Stauffer wrote:

> 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.
>
>


I hate to add to a thread nothing but shock and dismay to a thread...  
but..

WOW, firmware based hard drive locks... totally evil.

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tom