carlo@eagle.cvs.rochester.edu (Carlo Tiana) (07/27/90)
Well, ok it's all my fault and I am a fool and all that, but here's my problem. I bought a *great* 210Mb drive for my IIci from LaCie last December (internal, my Mac's only drive). I love it: it's fast, quiet, and ewell, quite spacious. As soon as I got it up and running (no problem at all) I partitioned it into a ~100Mb and 2 ~50Mb partitions.. I also checked out some of Silverlining's features, password protection being a neat one among them. Ahem. I set up passwords for each partition and reset that master disk password, each password being an obvious one (for me) and one that I could definitely remember. Well, you know what's coming next. I forgot all the passwords. Fortunately, the 100Mb and one of the 50Mb partitions are not locked, i.e. I can read and write to them (until I lock them once, that is! which I won't do!!!). The 2nd 50Mb partition is locked, empty and I can't write to it. Super, huh! Now if the password protection software is worth anything at all, I do not expect to receive any replies from anyone. But if anyone can think of any way to get those 50Mb back, please let me know! What about backing the whole thing up and reformatting the disk? Does anyone know if that will reset the passwords? Desperate (and repentant), Carlo. carlo@cvs.rochester.edu
wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman) (07/29/90)
In article <8633@ur-cc.UUCP> carlo@cvs.rochester.edu (Carlo Tiana) writes: >Well, ok it's all my fault and I am a fool and all that, but here's my >problem. I bought a *great* 210Mb drive for my IIci from LaCie last >December (internal, my Mac's only drive). I love it: it's fast, quiet, and <stuff deleted> >Now if the password protection software is worth anything at all, I do not >expect to receive any replies from anyone. But if anyone can think of any >way to get those 50Mb back, please let me know! Well Carlo, not to get your hopes up but there MIGHT just be a way :-) You say you got your drive last December. If you have not updated your silverlining software recently, you may be in luck! Earlier versions of silverlining had a "minor" bug. Seems the password locking on partitions could be overridden. They have recently (in the past few months) fixed this bug (the tech support at LaCie asked me not to spread this around but where there is a need AND an update :-)... Apparently with some SCSI tools you can do a force mount of the partition bypassing silverlinings password protection. A ways back someone even mentioned on the net how easy it was, if that individual is still reading the net maybe he might send you some info. And now for a guess :-)! It seems to me that you can actually CHANGE the driver on the hardisk without having to reformat it. You might want to try reinstalling a new driver over the old. If this works, you might be able to gain access by using the default password as documented in your silverlining documentation. I believe that the password fix was implemented in silverling v5.2 You can also contact LaCie's technical support. It is a 1-800 number and they can be most helpful. I have talked to them several times and have gotten good service (I have a Lacie drive and another Apple drive mounted in a LaCie case running LaCie's silverlining) Hope this helps! -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM