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From: nmorson on 29 Jan 2008 17:06 I have a Seagate ST3500630A hard drive (1/2Tb) purchased less than a week ago on ebuyer. And the summary is I've managed to lock it whilst building an Xbox Media Centre. And I can't unlock it. I have the password from the Xbox's eeprom but that's not working - neither is xboxscene, the master password set by the locking/unlocking utility that I used. I've emailed Seagate and asked for a link to the firmware download to flash the drive but so far they've been unresponsive on the issue. Is there another way? I can't believe I've just stuff an £80 hard drive! Please help - I have tried all of the unlocking utilities I can find but it rejects any password I throw at it
From: Grinder on 30 Jan 2008 23:46 nmorson(a)googlemail.com wrote: > I have a Seagate ST3500630A hard drive (1/2Tb) purchased less than a > week ago on ebuyer. And the summary is I've managed to lock it whilst > building an Xbox Media Centre. And I can't unlock it. I have the > password from the Xbox's eeprom but that's not working - neither is > xboxscene, the master password set by the locking/unlocking utility > that I used. Do you have an eeprom.bin file, that would have been created by making a backup in the EvoX dashboard?
From: Grinder on 30 Jan 2008 23:55 nmorson(a)googlemail.com wrote: > I have a Seagate ST3500630A hard drive (1/2Tb) purchased less than a > week ago on ebuyer. And the summary is I've managed to lock it whilst > building an Xbox Media Centre. And I can't unlock it. I have the > password from the Xbox's eeprom but that's not working - neither is > xboxscene, the master password set by the locking/unlocking utility > that I used. Also, describe the process by which you locked the hard drive.
From: nmorson on 30 Jan 2008 02:49 On Jan 30, 4:55 am, Grinder <grin...(a)no.spam.maam.com> wrote: > nmor...(a)googlemail.com wrote: > > I have a Seagate ST3500630A hard drive (1/2Tb) purchased less than a > > week ago on ebuyer. And the summary is I've managed to lock it whilst > > building an Xbox Media Centre. And I can't unlock it. I have the > > password from the Xbox's eeprom but that's not working - neither is > > xboxscene, the master password set by the locking/unlocking utility > > that I used. > > Also, describe the process by which you locked the hard drive. I have an eeprom.bin file that was created when I first installed EvoX. Using xboxhdm I copied a known good root drive from the existing xbox to the new hard drive. Then I locked it using xboxhdm with the command lockhd -a which automatically fetches the password from the eeprom. Problem is, I think the software changed the master password to xboxscene. I overlooked this when later rebuilding the drive again, and tried to unlock it using the eeprom.bin file (with the old password in it from the xbox). Even though I've now tried unlocking it using the password xboxscene it's not interested. I'm assuming there are a default number of attempts before the drive locks up for good, requiring a firmware flash. I've located firmware for older Seagate drives, and even fairly recent ones but not a 1/2Tb model. As a last resort I will flash it with one of these and see what happens, although I'm fairly certain it will brick the drive for good.
From: Grinder on 31 Jan 2008 03:29
nmorson(a)googlemail.com wrote: > On Jan 30, 4:55 am, Grinder <grin...(a)no.spam.maam.com> wrote: >> nmor...(a)googlemail.com wrote: >>> I have a Seagate ST3500630A hard drive (1/2Tb) purchased less than a >>> week ago on ebuyer. And the summary is I've managed to lock it whilst >>> building an Xbox Media Centre. And I can't unlock it. I have the >>> password from the Xbox's eeprom but that's not working - neither is >>> xboxscene, the master password set by the locking/unlocking utility >>> that I used. >> Also, describe the process by which you locked the hard drive. > > I have an eeprom.bin file that was created when I first installed > EvoX. Using xboxhdm I copied a known good root drive from the existing > xbox to the new hard drive. Then I locked it using xboxhdm with the > command lockhd -a which automatically fetches the password from the > eeprom. Problem is, I think the software changed the master password > to xboxscene. It will set a *master* password of xboxscene, but it should still lock the drive with an xbox-friendly password generated from eeprom.bin. > I overlooked this when later rebuilding the drive again, > and tried to unlock it using the eeprom.bin file (with the old > password in it from the xbox). And that unlock failed? What's the exact message you get when you try to unlock the drive? > Even though I've now tried unlocking it > using the password xboxscene it's not interested. I'm assuming there > are a default number of attempts before the drive locks up for good, > requiring a firmware flash. That's not true as far as I know. > I've located firmware for older Seagate drives, and even fairly recent > ones but not a 1/2Tb model. As a last resort I will flash it with one > of these and see what happens, although I'm fairly certain it will > brick the drive for good. I think you're being a bit rash. Do you have any reason to suspect flashing the firmware will unlock the drive? |