No "use passphrase" option in X220 BIOS, and no HDD Password portability

My goal is to set an HDD password to an Intel SSD drive, that can be unlocked both on the X220, and also on another computer, so the data on the drive are not tied to a particular machine in case of hardware failure.
I found on the forum that the "use passphrase" option in some older thinkpad BIOSes allows exactly this HDD password portability. When this option is disabled on a T60, I can set a HDD password, that can unlock the drive both on the T60 itself (that's expected!), and also on another Dell desktop. So far so good...
The problem is that this option is not available in the X220 BIOS (version 1.26), and as a consequence, there's is no  way to set an HDD password on the X220 that is recognized on the T60 and/or the Dell desktop. So I assume the option just got removed to avoid confusion, and the default behaviour is now to always "use passphrase".
I found a reference about a password length of 7 characters in the x220 user manual, page 92 : "If you set a hard disk password of over seven characters, the hard disk drive can be used only with a computer that can recognize a hard disk password of over seven characters." I tried to set a single letter HDD password, but even in this case the HDD password cannot be unlocked on another machine. So in my experience, there's no difference based on the HDD password length.
so my question is : is there a way to set an HDD password so the drive can be unlocked not just on the X220, but on another box.

Well, then ideally, it would be great if the "use passphrase" option could be added in a future BIOS update for the X220, just like this option seems to exist on another recent thinkpad model (for example the W510,https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/Can-t-remove-HDD-password/td-p/241538), so the user has the two choices:
- use the more-secure-because-hashed-in-an-undocumented-way passphrase as HDD password (with the consequence that a drive locked this way can only be unlocked on the same model of thinkpad)
or
- use the less-secure-because-passed-unmodified-to-the-drive HDD password (but compatible with BIOS from other manufacturers).

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