bill@crystal.UUCP (Bill Cox) (01/24/86)
> > ... it was up to the software to ask the OS if the disk > > was locked; that if the s/w didn't ask, the disk could be written to whether > > or not it was locked. DOES ANYONE IN NETLAND KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE????? > ...And an article from Apple a few days later said that indeed, the disk IS > write-protected in hardware as well as software. Yes, it IS write protected in hardware. However, when I asked about this some time ago while talking to an Apple Comp. Mac-hacker, it came out that there is a way to turn off the LED in the disk drive, so the hardware thinks that the disk is not protected. -- William Cox Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin, Madison WI bill@wisc.crys.edu ...{ihnp4,seismo,allegra}!uwvax!bill