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    hdparm to unlock/wipe hdd device settings

    That's fine. I understand. Thank you for your replies.
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    hdparm to unlock/wipe hdd device settings

    So this site is unwilling to help me although I personally own the drives and have no interest in their contents? OK. I'll go elsewhere. I could understand your stance if someone was trying to break into and compromise a secure drive. I just want to be able to use it. That's it. I wonder if...
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    hdparm to unlock/wipe hdd device settings

    I have three Seagate HD Pipeline 2TB drives and one Hitachi 2TB that I wish to use for a RAID level storage. They were obtained from DVR boxes. I do not care about any data on them. Initially they would not spin up unless hot swapped from a DVR. I fixed this with the hdparm -s command. It...