User Noob issue: How to know if my password is "rejected"?

[boldandbusted]

Howdy. I've just "turned on" encryption via msed on my Crucial MX200 500GB drive. I set it up with the instructions here: http://vxlabs.com/2012/12/22/ssds-with-usable-built-in-hardware-based-full-disk-encryption/ . However, I seem to be getting denied with my password, but the output is ambiguous (see attached screenshot):

Does this response from OPAL tell me that the passphrase as given was incorrect, or that the PBA cannot actually talk to my drive's firmware to give it the passphrase?

Thanks!

[r0m30]

Hi,
It looks like you need to use the linuxpba. Failed indicates that the
PBA can't communicate with the drive.

On Friday, October 16, 2015, Jesse Adelman [email protected] wrote:

Howdy. I've just "turned on" encryption via msed on my Crucial MX200 500GB
drive. I set it up with the instructions here:
http://vxlabs.com/2012/12/22/ssds-with-usable-built-in-hardware-based-full-disk-encryption/
. However, I seem to be getting denied with my password, but the output is
ambiguous (see attached screenshot):

[image: 20151016_142439]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/879972/10553975/e4e1db8a-7413-11e5-8db0-dfe72b446eb7.jpg

Does this response from OPAL tell me that the passphrase as given was
incorrect, or that the PBA cannot actually talk to my drive's firmware to
give it the passphrase?

Thanks!

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Mike

[boldandbusted]

Thank you. Does that mean I just need to boot off a secondary drive (USB, most likely) with that image, and then write the image to the drive with msed? Should I use the "rescue" PBA to do this?

[r0m30]

That should work. Once you have a command line you should be able to change
the PBA.

On Friday, October 16, 2015, Jesse Adelman [email protected] wrote:

Thank you. Does that mean I just need to boot off a secondary drive (USB,
most likely) with that image, and then write the image to the drive with
msed?

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Mike