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My Crucial BX100 SSD is locked. I can’t unlock it with the correct (!) user password.
So I’ve searched all over google, and read in a thread that I should try to unlock it with the master password.
Unfortunately I haven’t found the master ATA password for Crucial drives on the internet.
Does someone know the ATA master password for Crucial drives?
I want to use the command:
hdparm --user-master m --security-unlock PASS /dev/sda
Or maybe someone knows another solution that could unlock my SSD.
Background: I wanted to secure erase my SSD drive. I've booted from a Knoppix Live CD and used the command:
hdparm --user-master u --security-set-pass PASS /dev/sda
After that I wanted to actually secure erase it with:
hdparm --user-master u --security-erase PASS /dev/sda
But it said the following with some and some more 00
’s) at the end:
Bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 51 e0 00 21 04 …
Maybe important to know: Before that my drive has been frozen. I solved that by putting the system in Sleep Mode. After that the frozen-state has gone.
Maybe that led to the locked-state? I don’t know.
I’m a little bit desperate right here, hope you can help.
EDIT Mar 1-st:
I've found this thread today where someone has the exact same problem. In his case - they assume - there are controller-problems. Maybe i'll confront Crucial with that info in the next days.
And for further information: I've tried the following commands, too:
hdparm --user-master m -- security-disable NULL /dev/sda
and
hdparm --user-master m --security-erase-enhanced NULL /dev/sda
Results:
Bad/missing sense data, sb[ ]: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 51 e0 00 21 04
fdisk -l
Results:
i/o (input/output) Error
Have you tried skipping the unlock, and instead simply set a new master password? – Royce Williams – 2018-03-01T00:01:26.770
FYI, just so you know why I edited the title: Basically if your drive were locked with data that you wanted to access, that is one problem. But if the erase process failed and that is causing the lock, that is an entirely different thing. I doubt data recovery in a case like this would be possible, but figuring out how to wipe it again should definitely be doable. – JakeGould – 2018-03-01T00:02:32.623