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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Drilling holes in DS/DD -> DS/HD
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Date: 14 Dec 89 01:11:46 GMT
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From article <5678@ncar.ucar.edu>, by schabtac@porter.uucp (Adam Schabtach):
> I knew a guy who went one step further, and put a switch on the front of his
> disk drive that allowed him to defeat the microswitch inside that "felt"
> the write-protect notch.
> ...perform a similar modification on a newfangled 3.5" drive.

I believe the FDHD HD notch is read by a beam of light. So messing with it
might be an order of magnitude more difficult.
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