The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/fixeditgood on 2024-12-10 05:55:39.

Hey everyone,

I recently went off the deep end and bought a sight unseen HP G2 1/8 LTO6 autoloader [ok that’s a lie, I went off the deep end long ago]. Terrible decision as I am aware of HPe’s lack of any sort of support without a support contract. The issue of course I’ve run into, ironically and surely enough is I don’t know the GUI/control panel pin/password, and there is no handy dandy reset button. Seller has no idea about anything technical, so no help there. I did a fair amount of googling, and stumbled upon a 10+ year old spiceworks post explaining how to calculate a special code for a HP 1/9? 1/8? idk… (see below link), but either I can’t do math properly, or it isn’t working for one reason or another. My autoloader accepts 8 digits number ranging from 0 to 9 for each digit, the post indicates that the password on the autoloader generation there only has numbers 1-4 being valid… hmm.

https://community.spiceworks.com/t/hp-autoloader-1-8-g2-magazine-password-issue/65280

Has anyone had any experience resetting the password on these using the calculation with the date and time?

Thanks in advance!