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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:08:42 -0700, Steve Hultquist wrote: >Nope. The password is a cooperation between the drive and the >controller/carrier. Previously on this list someone took one out and >tried to read it in a desktop and the entire disk was all zeros. They >did it right, gang! You can't read a Thinkpad disk that has a password >on it unless you know the password. > >And I, for one, am very glad of that! > IBM sort of did that with the PS/2 systems. For example, on my Model 60 (286-10), the MFM hard drive has a special track (like track 0 or something) encoded with information about the drive, or maybe a driver that needs to load, like for an option board. So, I wouldn't be supprised if this is similiar to what IBM is now doing with the ThinkPads. Paul