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From: goldis@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Al Goldis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: hard drive write-protection?
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Date: 14 Feb 91 17:12:31 GMT
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From article <13100@hubcap.clemson.edu>, by mcmac@hubcap.clemson.edu (Scott McAlister):
[...]
> Let me describe the situation:
> I supervise a Mac Lab here at Clemson and we have a problem of students
> putting unauthorized software on the hard drives, and they sometimes make
> it difficult to find the software (hiding within folders). It hasn't been 
> much of problem having the lab operators go thru each folder to find the
> software, but now it is.
 
> What I want to do is to partition the hard drives, with one partition
> containing all of our legitimate software, write-protected.  And the other
> partition open for the students to save to.  This way, just one large dump
> to the trash can deletes all of the unauthorized stuff.   

We have an almost identical situation here.  We've been very happy
with Hard Disk Partition(tm) from FWB Software.  In addition to what
you've described above, it can also copy-protect the software on a
partition.

I'd be happy to provide more specific details on request.
--
Al Goldis         goldis@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
Weeg Computing Center, The University of Iowa