How can I unfreeze an SSD connected to a remote server?

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Published on 2012-10-03T15:48:23Z Indexed on 2013/10/21 3:57 UTC
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I don't have physical access to the machine, so I can't unplug the drive.

# hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep frozen
            frozen

The advice I've read elsewhere is to hotplug the drive, pull the power / sata cables while the machine is running. Those are not possible in this situation as I don't have physical access. I've tried power cycling the machine through the host's control panel a few times, but that hasn't worked.

Is there any way I can unfreeze (unfrozen?) the drive without physical access?

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