From: Rob Bell (rbell1_at_netscape.net)
Date: Fri Dec 03 1999 - 13:48:07 EST
I guess I didn't get that impression from earlier posts. It sounded like the
HD was working fine before EZ-Serve and now the machine, with the new system
board, won't accept the HD password. EZ-Serve couldn't change the HD password
without knowing the old one, so that didn't seem likely. I just thought that
if the new system board was causing the incompatibility then putting the drive
in another TP might allow the real password to be accepted (and then
removed).
Just an idea...
Rob
> I didn't get the impression that the drive was now incompatible, but that
> the password had been changed by EZ-Serve. The system board doesn't know
> (nor care) if there's a password on the HD TTBMK.
>
> I go through this all the time when I work on my wife's 600 which has; 1)
> POP, 2) HD PW, 3) NT4 PW and 4) a separate Lotus Notes PW.
>
> > Come to think of it, maybe it would be worth checking the drive in
another
> > Thinkpad to see if it would work?
>
> You'd get the same response, i.e. the drive would request the PW on bootup,
> whether or not there was a BIOS PW. Otherwise, a HD PW could be overcome by
> simply putting the drive in another machine.
>
> Regards,
>
> James
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