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iStorage diskAshur
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User Manual v1.4
Table of Contents
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Box contents ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
diskAshur M
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Layout ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4
1. LED indicators and their actions ..................................................................................................................................................... 5
2. LED States ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
3. First Time Use .................................................................................................................................................................................6
4. Unlocking diskAshur M
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with the Admin PIN ................................................................................................................................. 7
5. How to Enter Admin Mode ............................................................................................................................................................. 7
6. Changing the Admin PIN ................................................................................................................................................................ 8
7. Setting a User PIN Policy ............................................................................................................................................................... 9
8. How to delete the User PIN Policy .................................................................................................................................................. 10
9. How to check the User PIN Policy .................................................................................................................................................. 10
10. Adding a New User PIN in Admin Mode ......................................................................................................................................... 11
11. Changing the User PIN in Admin Mode .......................................................................................................................................... 12
12. Deleting the User PIN in Admin Mode ........................................................................................................................................... 12
13. How to Unlock diskAshur M
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with User PIN ................................................................................................................................... 13
14. Changing the User PIN in User Mode ............................................................................................................................................ 13
15. Creating a One-Time User Recovery PIN ........................................................................................................................................ 14
16. Deleting the One-Time User Recovery PIN ..................................................................................................................................... 14
17. Activating Recovery Mode and Creating New User PIN .................................................................................................................. 15
18. Set User Read-Only in Admin Mode .............................................................................................................................................. 15
19. Enable User Read/Write in Admin Mode ........................................................................................................................................ 16
20. Set Global Read-Only in Admin Mode ............................................................................................................................................ 16
21. Enable Global Read/Write in Admin Mode ..................................................................................................................................... 17
22. How to configure a Self-Destruct PIN ............................................................................................................................................. 17
23. How to delete the Self-Destruct PIN ............................................................................................................................................... 18
24. How to Unlock with the Self-Destruct PIN ...................................................................................................................................... 18
25. How to Configure an Admin PIN after a Brute Force attack or Reset .............................................................................................. 19
26. Setting the Unattended Auto-Lock .................................................................................................................................................. 19
27. Turn off the Unattended Auto-Lock ................................................................................................................................................. 20
28. How to check the Unattended Auto-Lock ......................................................................................................................................... 21
29. Set Read-Only in User Mode .......................................................................................................................................................... 21
30. Enable Read/Write in User Mode .................................................................................................................................................... 22
31. Brute Force Hack Defence Mechanism ........................................................................................................................................... 22
32. How to set the User PIN Brute Force Limitation ............................................................................................................................. 23
33. How to check the User PIN Brute Force Limitation ......................................................................................................................... 24
34. How to perform a complete reset ................................................................................................................................................... 25
35. How to configure diskAshur M
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as Bootable .................................................................................................................................. 25
36. How to disable the diskAshur M
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Bootable feature ......................................................................................................................... 26
37. How to check the Bootable setting .................................................................................................................................................. 26
38. Initialising and formatting diskAshur M
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for Windows .................................................................................................................. 27
39. Initialising and formatting diskAshur M
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in Mac OS ...................................................................................................................... 29
40. Initialising and formatting diskAshur M
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in Linux OS .................................................................................................................... 31
41. Hibernating, Suspending or Logging off from the Operating System ............................................................................................ 34
42. How to check Firmware in Admin Mode ......................................................................................................................................... 34
43. How to check Firmware in User Mode ............................................................................................................................................ 35
44. Technical Support .......................................................................................................................................................................... 36
45. Warranty and RMA information ...................................................................................................................................................... 36
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