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From: GHGADC7@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: FFS write protect
Message-ID: <91112.163239GHGADC7@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 22 Apr 91 16:30:39 GMT
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
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With the command lock you can set/clear the write-protect flag of a harddisk,
but after a reset this flag is cleared. A searched my harddisk partition but
couldn't find anything that changed by setting the protection, so I think the
only thing that changes is some stupid FFS structure in memory.

Is this correct ? And if so is there another way of setting the
write-protection of a harddisk ???

Harddisks dont't need bootblocks, is this because of KS1.3 or is this a sort
of system patch done by the harddisk controller ???  If it's a system patch
I wondered if changing the program that is stored in the first track of an
A590 harddisk would help ???

                 Penders Alain

                 ghgadc7@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be