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From: dueker@xen.arc.nasa.gov (Chris Dueker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus
Keywords: Thank God it's impossible!
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Date: 13 Apr 90 22:10:04 GMT
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In article ..., salan@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Salim Alam) writes...
> 
>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...

Last Xmastime, I popped in a disk in df0: of my old A1000 and found out
that the info command showed it as being writeable.  Turned out that there
was enough "fuzz" (cloth fibers, dust, etc) to prevent the little pin that
detects read-only disks from working properly.  I just reached in there
and tried to remove as much as the fuzz as I could.  It worked.  The
drive began recognizing read-only disks.

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