Is my hard drive locked or not?

  Toshiba 3.2GB 2.5" drive.
In my Dell CPI 266MHz. the drive is not recognized at all.
In my Dell CPI 366MHz. I get a screen asking for a drive password.
In my desktop, I can format the drive, load an OS and it boots fine.
Also works fine on a USB/IDE converter.
I run atapwd.exe from the desktop.  There's no indicaiton
that the drive is locked.

The computers seem to disagree whether the drive has a password.
What the heck is going on?  How do I make this drive work in my
laptop?

Thanks, mike