Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA!JSG8A From: JSG8A@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA (Jean-Serge Gagnon) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm Subject: hard disk write protect Message-ID: <9105201340.AA10238@lilac.berkeley.edu> Date: 20 May 91 13:26:18 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: BITNIC IBM-NETS List Organization: The Internet Lines: 32 Thanks Valdis... I am very much aware that the solution will vary from one system to the next, especially in the environment that I currently work. The reason I was asking without giving any specifics, is that before having to go out and getting documents to do the thing, I was wondering if there wasn't any system on which it would be easy to do without having to get the doc. For example, because I havn't taken the time to look it up, is there any standard on an IDE, SCSI or an AT type controller card for PC's? Does a MAC have any signal that's standard on it? Etc... OR... do I really have to do it on the schematic level of a Hard Disk, and there's no way to do it from the controller level? P.S. Once again, is there a list I can subscribe to that would be a bit more suited to this type of question? Thanks again. _______________________________________________________________________ | | | Jean-Serge Gagnon | |___________________________________ ___________________________________| | | | | Specialiste en Equipement | Computer Hardware | | Informatique | Maintenance Specialist | | Universite d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa | | (613) 564-7813 | (613) 564-7813 | |___________________________________|___________________________________|