Locked Hard Drives

[amator]

Hi,

About 2 months ago I bought ReadyNAS DUO. I put in there 2 x WD RE4 2TB. 

Unfortunately, I had to change NAS to something faster so I sell this NAS (without hard disk). 

Today when I try connect those drives to PC or other NAS I got "Please enter ATA password". 

What? I don't lock this hard drives with password. I even know that readynas duo have this option. 

Plese help me. How unlock my disks?

[mdgm-ntgr · Accepted solution]

See this thread: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/Drives-quot-locked-quot-after-being-in-NV-HELP/...

[mdgm-ntgr]

The easiest way would be to put the disks back in a Sparc ReadyNAS and do a factory default.

[amator]

problem is that I sold this NAS 😕

[mdgm-ntgr · Accepted solution]

See this thread: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/Drives-quot-locked-quot-after-being-in-NV-HELP/...

[amator]

I ask buyer to send me back ReadyNAS DUO for 1-2 days to unlock my hard drives. 

I just got package. I insert disks and make factory reset. 

It stuck on "Disk initialization" for about 3 hours from now. How long it take? RAIDar shows IP: 192.168.168.168

I read that is problem with DHCP but dhcp serwer working fine. 

I also tryied to connect directrly to NAS and change my Mac IP to 192.168.168.5

Ping's going, but can't access admin panel. 

[BrianL2]

Hi amator,

Thanks for the update. Have you tried using a different drive? Trying this would let us know if you have to try the workaround from the link mdgm provided.

Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

[amator]

nope, I did't for now. 

In mdgm link i read that he solve problem with rebulid xraid, so I try this for now. 

for i=0:15
         password[i] = 0xbeef + i; // 2-byte short word
We use big-endian while Intel uses little-endian, so password
on PC may be: 0xefbe, 0xf0be, ... Sorry for picking up beef as password. 

I don't know programming so I don't know what other combination will be. I try first 2 provides with no result. 

[JennC]

Hello amator,

Try sending PM to mdgm about the commands.

Regards,

[amator]

Disk are now unlocked 🙂

I left this for a night. In the morrning everything was OK. It take couple hours. 

I want say thank you to you all for help. 

[mdgm-ntgr]

Thanks for the update. Glad it is now resolved.