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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus
Keywords: Thank God it's impossible!
Message-ID: <1693@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 90 14:19:24 GMT
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salan@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Salim Alam) writes:

>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

>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...

Sounds like your drive is the culprit here. I think that the amiga drives
have a failure mode that makes the drive writable in the event of the
write detect failing. In other words, your drive can't tell whether the
disk is protected or not anymore so it assumes that it is not protected in
order to let you get some use out of it. It should be repaired.

My old 1010 drive does work and will not write to a write protected disk.

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