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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Syquest 555 and R/W errors
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Date: 23 Oct 90 20:38:03 GMT
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In article <16ZgR5w163w@valnet> joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes:
>There's a program in the c: directory called "lock", I believe (never 
>used the sucker) that provides a virtual write-protect for hard drives. 

Actually, it gives a virtual write-protect on the FFS, not on the drive.
Hence, direct I/O (via SCSIdirect or hddisk.device) still goes out to
the drive and can write it, including the "format" command. -- Darren
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