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From: mathrich@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Rich Winkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Floppy write protection
Message-ID: <1990Apr9.203725.3096@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 90 20:37:25 GMT
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In <1990Apr7.213734.19233@uunet!unhd> mas770@uunet!unhd (Michael A Super) writes:
>I have a question on IBM PC floppy drive write protection: 
>	Is there any way to override the write protection on a disk (write
>	to a disk without a notch, for example) through software?  I know DOS

No.  The write protection is done in hardware.  You can see this by looking
at the schematics and documentation in the IBM PC technical reference.
There's no way to get around it with software.

Rich