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From: derek@leah.albany.edu (Cinderella Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: TECHNICAL INFO needed: hard drive protection
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Date: 10 Mar 91 07:04:47 GMT
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From Rick_McCormack@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) come these immortal words:
>A simple solution to your problem, if neither you or the students will need
>floppy drive much (i.e. it can be used under some supervision) would be to put
>lock plates in the floppy drives.  Several manufactureres make security system
>that have these plates with locks to block access to the floppy.

	Unfortunately, this is not an option -- the students must be able
to save their work to a floppy for transportation, so the drives must be
accessible.  I just need to find some way of making them ignored at
startup.  (Hopefully we'll get the money allocated for MacPassword, but if
not I gots to look elsewhere).

						Derek L.
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