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mkush · 05-18-2026

I have two D5-P5336 drives in use on my Mac and they are working great. I bought another one (used) but this one is OPAL. I do NOT care about the hardware encryption; I just want to use it as a normal drive. However, when I connect it to the computer...

mkush · 05-25-2026

To get the command-line SST that I used in Windows PE, I just copied the folder out of Program Files on my normal Windows installation, onto a USB stick. On Windows PE I just ran it from the stick.

mkush · 05-25-2026

For the community, I wanted to post a followup. Gleb helped me via email and after a week of back-and-forth my drive is working.So I can confirm that OPAL drives are just fine (running with OPAL off) on Macs.My drive in particular had a different pro...

mkush · 05-20-2026

Hi Gleb,Thanks again. I already know what happens when I do diskpart clean. I get the following error: An attempt was made to move the file pointer before the beginning of the file. The drive disappears from diskpart and Disk Management after that. R...

mkush · 05-19-2026

Gleb, thanks. I need a little help doing the steps you suggest.First however, I want to ask a basic question: Is what I am attempting to do even possible? In other words, use an OPAL drive as if it did not have OPAL, on a Mac, which has no way to unl...

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