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From: CUMMINGS@S55.Prime.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Overide of write protect on floppie
Message-ID: <132000023@S55.Prime.COM>
Date: 20 Oct 89 17:57:00 GMT
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/* Written  8:32 am  Oct 20, 1989 by lee@minnow.UUCP in S55:comp.sys.ibm.pc */
/* ---------- "Overide of write protect on floppie" ---------- */


Does anyone have some software that I can run which would reconfigure
the floppy drive in my pc AT compatible to ignore write protect tabs.

The bottom line is that I want to copy programs to floppies for
distribution and have a bunch of floppies laying around that don't
have slots cut in them.

Please mail you responses, thank you.

			Gene W. Lee
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  Most floppy disk drives have a jumper on the Drive Interface Card
That controls whether or not WRITE-ONLY is Hole covered, or hole open.
If you want to write on floppies without a notch, I suggest you find
the "user's manual" for your drive, determine where the jumper is, and
change it.  I also suggest using a dedicated drive for just this purpose
(unless you like going into your computer case to change this jumper
every time you need to do a production run!).
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