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On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 01:09:25PM -0500, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> And part of that "much work" was trying to unlock two hard drives =20
> from bad Xbox upgrade attempts. One happened over a year ago, and I =20
> thought maybe I did something else that fried the drive. Then when I =20
> got a drive out tonight for the mfsbackup, I decided I'd try it on my =20
> Xbox first. Boot Xbox with utils CD, lock drive, prepare drive, =20
> reboot, error 13. Oops, looks like its a bad idea to lock the drive =20
> if you haven't loaded the dashboard and stuff first--it won't boot =20
> the CD with the utilities you need to unlock it again! Fortunately =20
> the utility I locked it with had set the IDE master password to =20
> "TEAMASSEMBLER" and I was able to get both drives working again.

Can you give references on the standards governing this "locking"
of ATA drives?  I tried to find them once and wasn't successful.

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