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KrisW
Mar 23, 2015Aspirant
ReadyNAS NV+ ate my WD20EZRX (2TB Green)?
Hi guys, I bought two WD20EZRX - 00D8PB0 2TB "Green" drives to fit in my NV+ (v1, I guess - the PCB still says "Infrant"). The WD Green 20EARX model is on the compatibility list, and the EZRX sho...
KrisW
Mar 24, 2015Aspirant
Okay, assuming that the locking password for a drive locked by v1 is the following 32 bytes:
BE EF BE F0 BE F1 BE F2 BE F3 BE F4 BE F5 BE F6 BE F7 BE F8 BE F9 BE FA BE FB BE FC BE FD BE FE
(that's the resulting byte sequence of the code posted in the v1 link, for a big-endian CPU)
Here's my result (/dev/sdb is the device on Linux)
The other failed disk is in my ReadyNAS. But for as long as it remains inserted in the NAS, the NAS becomes unresponsive to SSH or HTTP connection requests. This cannot be normal, expected behaviour. Any suggestions?
BE EF BE F0 BE F1 BE F2 BE F3 BE F4 BE F5 BE F6 BE F7 BE F8 BE F9 BE FA BE FB BE FC BE FD BE FE
(that's the resulting byte sequence of the code posted in the v1 link, for a big-endian CPU)
Here's my result (/dev/sdb is the device on Linux)
# hdparm --security-unlock $(echo -e '\xBE\xEF\xBE\xF0\xBE\xF1\xBE\xF2\xBE\xF3\xBE\xF4\xBE\xF5\xBE\xF6\xBE\xF7\xBE\xF8\xBE\xF9\xBE\xFA\xBE\xFB\xBE\xFC\xBE\xFD\xBE\xFE') /dev/sdb
security_password="��������������������������������"
Issuing SECURITY_UNLOCK command, password="��������������������������������", user=user
SECURITY_UNLOCK: Input/output error
The other failed disk is in my ReadyNAS. But for as long as it remains inserted in the NAS, the NAS becomes unresponsive to SSH or HTTP connection requests. This cannot be normal, expected behaviour. Any suggestions?
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