Re: IBM 750CE PASSWORD

[Steve Hultquist <ssh@wwsi.com>]

At 10:06 PM 2/29/96 +0000, Don Whiteside wrote:
>However, if the data is the thing, there is nothing non-standard 
>about those hard drives and I am sure the password if just a 
>boot-related vent, not an encryption system of any sort. You could 
>probably remove the drive from the case, make it a slave drive and 
>attach it to an existing system (with the proper 44 pin -> 40 pin 
>adaptor, of course) and access the data that way. Not for the faint 
>of heart, obviously.

This may or may not be true. I was under the impression (may be wrong) that
the disk required the controller, and the controller was frozen by the PW.

Cheers,
ssh
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Steve Hultquist                                Worldwide Solutions, Inc.
Distributed Systems and Internet Engineering           Boulder, Colorado