Any reason to Lock HDD with hard mod?

[clueless]

Hello

I'm just in the process of dusting off my Green Halo edition OG xbox, that I modded years ago.  Had a problem with the hdd, formatted it (with a release of slayers) and never got around to finishing the job.  There it sat for 10? years and I am now in the process of sorting it out.

I dont remember what chip I put in, but I do recall it has connectiopn to the power and eject buttons.

When I press the power button, the dashboard comes up (cant remember which one), and when I press the eject button, I get a boot error screen...  wall of text.... I remember that it will boot differently depending  on which button you use, but I dont recall what it was.

So, to get to the point, is there any reason I should lock the hdd?  120gb ide...  Does the MS dashboard require it to be locked?  I recall I had the p[rescense of mind to unlock the drive before I worked on it way back when, but dont recall why I locked it in the first place...

[bolofski]

the boot error screen is when your chip is disabled, locking the drive and booting with eject would probably boot to msdash, its not msdash as such that requires the drive to be locked but the fact the chip is disabled via booting with eject requires it to be locked

[clueless]

makes sense.   

I need to open  up the xbox at some point to check the caps.  Will take a look at what I need to do to disable that.  I have no need to boot to the MS bios!

[nikeymikey]

I believe the upcoming Xbox Live replacement, Insignia, may also require the drive to be locked.