Factory restore Hitachi HUS723030ALS641 SAS SED drives?

[MCgendraft]

I am trying to basically set back to factory Hitachi HUS723030ALS641 SAS drives, which are self-
encrypting. Has anyone ever been able to somehow mount them using the MSID and format them? The first problem I may be having is I have the drive showing unmounted in a USB LinuxMint Live distro. If anyone has any direction I would appreciate it, I have scoured the internet, ultimately I want to run sg_sanitize on them, if that is even possible. I have done alot of drive work, I just don't know much about the SED drives.
If I do a
'hdparm -I /dev/sdb'
I get:
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data as well as a
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: input/output error

and I tried 2 different physical drives.

 

[drtweak]

What do you mean factor restore? Do you mean wipe the password so the drive is useable again?

A self Encrypting drive is only un-usable is their was a password set to the hard drive.

 

[MCgendraft]

Yes, wipe the password/encrption to make the drives usable. From what the person I am working with told me, is that they had a tool for some seagate drives that would remove the encryption, and format them, by entering in the MSID code from the drive. I don't care about the data or partitions. Anything I try comes up ultimately with I/O errors, and I am just wondering if the drives have some sort of hardware/bios on the drives themselves that preside over the OS.

 

[drtweak]

Try this program here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bkt6ttwt6wgc1w/WinPE_5.1_x64_SD6.5.ISO?dl=0

Either burn it to a DVD or use RUFUS to put it on a thumb drive.

It is designed for Secure Doc but if you run it and remove it (can't remember where it is at. Been a while) but it ask for the PSID. See if that works for you. I have only used this on Secure Doc Drives but maybe it will work for you.

 

[MCgendraft]

Awesome, thx bro, I'll give it a shot when I can, and let you know.

 

[MCgendraft]

Do you happen to know off hand if there is a 32 bit image of this? I tried to look around, and didn't see anything. I did get a 32 bit version of Windows 7, and tried creating an iso with the program on it, but not having much luck. Thanks!

 

[drtweak]

is your CPU only 32 bit? hard to beleive that it is unless it is an old PC.

You just have to burn the ISO to a DVD or a Thumb drive then boot form that DVD or Thumb drive

 

[MCgendraft]

is your CPU only 32 bit? hard to beleive that it is unless it is an old PC.

You just have to burn the ISO to a DVD or a Thumb drive then boot form that DVD or Thumb drive

The only machines available with the controllers are old. I've made tons of live USB distros, and it boots up fine on 2 of my machines, but it won't boot on any of the machines that the drives are connected too, and I was told none were 64 bit, and they were all 32 bit hardware.

 

[drtweak]

What kind of CPU are they running? It has to be a pretty old CPU or running some really low end Atom CPU's to be only 32 bit, but i'll see if they got a 32 bit version or not.

 

[drtweak]

They do not make a 32 bit version of the software, but you can try this here

https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/wiki/Encrypting-your-drive

files can be found here

https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil

I have not used that yet. Looks like it runs on linux though for sure here.