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From: georgen@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (G. Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Write protect for hard drive
Keywords: hard drive ibm
Message-ID: <1990May29.192755.7817@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 29 May 90 19:27:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: gpu.1990May29.192755.7817
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In article <1733@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>Forget about software solutions - they are not 100 % reliable.  There are
>many programs out there that claim to be able to write-protect hard disks,
>HDSENTRY is an example, but they just don't work.

What is it about HDSentry that makes it not 100% reliable?  I've been using
it on my PC and it works fine for me.  Do you mean that certain viruses or
trojans are able to circumvent HDSentry's protection scheme?  Hmm...
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