brian@wolves.uucp (Brian Daniels) (07/09/90)
First, thanks to all those who helped out with my boot-delay question.
Now, for another question :-)
Is it possible to build a write protect switch for a hard drive? It would
seem to be a good way to protect against errors, viruses, and other general
mayhem...
Thanks in advance,
Brian
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Brian Daniels
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------larserio@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErikOsterud) (07/10/90)
A friend of mine at the university has made a C: write protect that they use to stop the students at the university from messing with C: on all the university's MEGA STs Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________ Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST __________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association
neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) (07/16/90)
In article <CMM.0.88.647554357.larserio@kvart.uio.no> larserio@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErikOsterud) writes: >A friend of mine at the university has made a C: write protect that they >use to stop the students at the university from messing with C: on all >the university's MEGA STs I've done this too in our ST lab. The students hate but I hate them so ... (I'm kidding! I love them really) > Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________ > Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST >__________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! DISCLAIMER:Unless otherwise stated, the above comments are entirely my own ! ! ! ! Neil Forsyth JANET: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs ! ! Dept. of Computer Science ARPA: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk ! ! Heriot-Watt University UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil ! ! Edinburgh, Scotland, UK "spam spaM spAM sPAM SPAM, lovely SPAM" ! +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+