[ltp] Hard disk password & linux

[James Knott]

Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar wrote:

> PD. Question: That hard drive password, it's in the BIOS level, right?
> so, if someone removes the BIOS battery for a couple of minutos,
> wouldn't this password deleted with the rest of the bios?
> 

According to what I read from IBM, when you password protect a hard 
drive, it's considered unrecoverable, should you forget the password.
However, the power up password is erasable.