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From: salan@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Salim Alam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus
Keywords: Thank God it's impossible!
Message-ID: <3322@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Date: 6 Apr 90 17:27:12 GMT
References: <1990Apr3.113209.2051@iesd.auc.dk> <6368@rouge.usl.edu>
Reply-To: salan@ub.d.umn.edu.UUCP (Salim Alam)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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In article <6368@rouge.usl.edu> wakres01@pa.usl.edu (Stelly John B) writes:
>
>To the best of my knowledge (as an electrical engineering student who repairs
>amigas and C64's) it is impossible to write to a write protected disk using the
>amiga's disk controller, and currently there is no way of using the disk drive
>on a standard amiga without going through the controller...
>

I have recently discovered that my old A1010 drive does not care
whether the disk is write protected or not -- programs that write to
the drive merrily write away even if the write protect tab is set...